BaZi Chart Analysis
Sam Altman — BaZi Chart Analysis
Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI and a central figure of the current AI wave, known for overseeing ChatGPT’s launch. After two years at Stanford, he dropped out to co‑found Loopt, later joining the startup accelerator Y Combinator and serving as its president from 2014 to 2019. He co‑founded OpenAI in 2015 and became its CEO in 2019, helping to drive large‑scale adoption of generative AI.
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.
| Pillar | 干支 | Romanised | Ten God |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | 乙丑 | Yi Chou | Pian Cai |
| Month | 庚辰 | Geng Chen | Jie Cai |
| Day | 辛卯 | Xin Mao | Day Master |
Day Master: 辛 (Xin, yin Metal). The engine reads this chart's day master as somewhat weak, in a 正印格 (Zheng Yin) structure — a chart organised around support, learning and backing.
No birth hour is on record for Sam Altman. 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 — 偏财 (Pian Cai): opportunistic wealth — the deal rather than the salary.
- Month stem — 劫财 (Jie Cai): the rival — competition and shared resources.
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 Xin day master — it generalises to charts with this configuration, which is a much smaller set.
The branch relations the engine found
- 六害 · a harm — 卯 (Mao) / 辰 (Chen), in the day and month branches. A friction relation — attrition rather than collision.
- 六破 · a break — 丑 (Chou) / 辰 (Chen), in the year and month branches. A destabilising relation, weaker than a clash.
Reading it
A somewhat weak Xin Metal day master in a Zheng Yin structure, with Pian Cai on the year and Jie Cai on the month. Both branch relations are friction — a Mao–Chen harm and a Chou–Chen break — so the chart has no combination stabilising it and no clash breaking it. The tradition reads a weak day master with印 support and attritional branches as a chart that holds together through backing rather than through its own weight.
What this page does not claim
A BaZi chart is a symbolic framework for reading temperament and timing, not an explanation of a life. Everything above describes a configuration; none of it asserts that the configuration caused any documented event, and no reading here works backwards from a known biography to a chart feature that would have predicted it. Public birth records are also imperfect — where the hour is unknown, this page says so rather than assigning one.
This is not a substitute for medical, financial or legal advice.
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: 1985-04-22, hour unknown. The birth-data source is cited on the Chinese edition of this page.