Rafael Nadal — BaZi Chart Analysis
Rafael Nadal, born in Manacor, Mallorca in 1986, is a former Spanish professional tennis player and the iconic "King of Clay." He won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, including a record 14 French Open crowns, and is one of the very few men to achieve a career Golden Slam in singles. Nadal spent 209 weeks as ATP world No. 1 and finished as year‑end No.
The chart, as computed
Two things about the method matter: the Month pillar is cut by solar term rather than by calendar month, and the Year pillar turns at 立春 rather than at New Year — both of which move a chart for anyone born near a boundary. The prose follows the chart.
| Pillar | 干支 | Romanised | Ten God |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | 丙寅 | Bing Yin | Pian Yin |
| Month | 癸巳 | Gui Si | Zheng Cai |
| Day | 戊寅 | Wu Yin | Day Master |
Day Master: 戊 (Wu, yang Earth).
No birth hour is on record for Rafael Nadal. The hour pillar is therefore omitted rather than guessed, and nothing in this reading depends on it — no hour-branch relation, no luck-cycle direction, and no claim that would need the fourth pillar to stand up. Three pillars is a smaller chart, not a less accurate one.
What the ten gods put where
- Year stem — 偏印 (Pian Yin): unorthodox support — self-taught, oblique, private.
- Month stem — 正财 (Zheng Cai): steady wealth — earned, incremental, held.
Ten Gods describe relations. The label attaches to a stem only in relation to the Day Master, so nothing in the list above generalises to everyone sharing a Wu day master — it generalises to charts with this configuration, which is a much smaller set.
Branch relations in this chart
- 六害 · a harm — 寅 (Yin) / 巳 (Si), in the year and month branches. A friction relation — attrition rather than collision.
Reading it
A somewhat strong Wu Earth day master in a Pian Yin structure, with Pian Yin on the year and Zheng Cai on the month, and a single Yin–Si harm as the only branch relation. A strong Earth day master with unorthodox resource and one friction relation is a structurally simple chart — the tradition reads that as endurance rather than volatility, since there is little in the branch layer to destabilise it.
Work out your own chart
To compare this against your own chart, run it through the BaZi chart calculator — it uses the same solar-term boundaries as the table above. Definitions for anything unfamiliar are in the BaZi glossary, and the celebrity index lists the other charted figures.
Birth data as held on file: 1986-06-03, hour unknown. The birth-data source is cited on the Chinese edition of this page.