Queen Elizabeth II — BaZi Chart Analysis

Elizabeth II became Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms in 1952 and reigned for 70 years and 214 days, the longest of any British monarch and any queen regnant in history. Born in Mayfair, London, she was the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. After her uncle Edward VIII abdicated, her father took the throne and ten‑year‑old Elizabeth became heir presumptive.

The chart, as computed

Every pillar below is computed by this site's engine from the birth date on file, using the solar terms rather than the Gregorian month — so the Month pillar changes at the 節 boundary, not on the 1st. Nothing in this reading was written before the chart was computed.

Day Master: 庚 (Geng, yang Metal). The engine reads this chart's day master as balanced, in a 偏印格 (Pian Yin) structure — a chart organised around unorthodox, self-supplied resource.

This is one of the minority of profiles here with a recorded birth hour, so all four pillars are computed and the hour column below is real rather than inferred.

What the ten gods put where

• Year stem — 七杀 (Qi Sha): pressure — authority experienced as force.
• Month stem — 食神 (Shi Shen): the output — expression, craft, ease of production.
• Hour stem — 正官 (Zheng Guan): legitimate authority — office, rules, reputation.

The Ten Gods are relational labels, not qualities: each one names how a stem stands to the Day Master, so the same 干支 means something different in a different chart. That is why the table above is worth more than any general description of Geng people.

The branch relations the engine found

• 暗合 · a hidden bond — 寅 (Yin) / 丑 (Chou), in the year and hour branches, resolving to Earth. A bond formed by the branches' hidden stems rather than by the branches themselves.
• 六破 · a break — 丑 (Chou) / 辰 (Chen), in the hour and month branches. A destabilising relation, weaker than a clash.
• 拱会 · an embraced assembly — 寅 (Yin) / 辰 (Chen), in the year and month branches, resolving to Wood. Two branches implying a seasonal block they do not literally complete.
• 自刑 · a self-punishment — 辰 (Chen) / 辰 (Chen), in the month and day branches. A branch repeated against itself.

Reading it

A balanced Geng Metal day master in a Pian Yin structure — and a balanced verdict is the rarest of the six in this corpus. Qi Sha on the year, Shi Shen on the month, Zheng Guan on the hour: pressure, output and legitimate office, one to each of the three non-day pillars. Four branch relations, all mild — a hidden Yin–Chou bond, a Chou–Chen break, an embraced Yin–Chen Wood assembly, and a Chen–Chen self-punishment. The tradition reads a balanced day master carrying both authority gods as the configuration best suited to occupying a role for a long time without being consumed by it.

What this page does not claim

What is above is a configuration, described. It is not a causal account of anyone's life, and nothing here reasons backwards from a documented outcome to the chart feature that would have foretold it — that move is the standard way this genre goes wrong, and it is avoided deliberately. Birth records are imperfect too, and where the hour is missing this page leaves it missing.

This is not a substitute for medical, financial or legal advice.

Work out your own chart

The same engine that computed the pillars above will compute yours: enter a birth date and time in the free BaZi chart calculator. If you want the terminology first, the BaZi glossary defines the Ten Gods, the branch relations and the pillar positions used on this page. More figures are in the celebrity chart index.

Birth data as held on file: 1926-04-21, hour 2. The birth-data source is cited on the Chinese edition of this page.