Stephen Chow — BaZi Chart Analysis

Stephen Chow (1962–) is a Hong Kong filmmaker and former actor whose mo lei tau (nonsensical) comedy reshaped Chinese popular culture. Starting in television variety shows and dramas, he broke through in 1989 with The Final Combat and The Justice of Life, then repeatedly shattered Hong Kong box-office records with films such as All for the Winner and Fight Back to School.

The chart, as computed

The pillars below came out of the engine, not out of a reference table. The Month pillar turns on the 節 (the odd solar terms) rather than on the calendar month, which is why a birth in the first days of a Gregorian month often belongs to the previous 干支 month. The reading was written after the chart, never before it.

Day Master: 辛 (Xin, yin Metal). The engine reads this chart's day master as so weak that the chart reads as a follow-structure rather than a self-supporting one, in a 从杀格 (Cong Sha) structure — a follow-the-power structure — the chart yields to pressure rather than resisting it.

No birth hour is on record for Stephen Chow. 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 — 伤官 (Shang Guan): the disruptor — talent that will not stay inside the rules.
• Month stem — 正官 (Zheng Guan): legitimate authority — office, rules, reputation.

A Ten God is a relation, not a trait. 正官 is not a kind of person — it is what a particular stem is to this day master, which means the same 干支 carries a different god in someone else's chart. General descriptions of Xin types are therefore weaker than the table above, which is specific to this one.

The branch relations the engine found

• 三合半合 · a half-trine — 寅 (Yin) / 午 (Wu), in the year and month branches, resolving to Fire. Two of the three branches of a trine frame, so the pull toward that element is real but partial.
• 六破 · a break — 卯 (Mao) / 午 (Wu), in the day and month branches. A destabilising relation, weaker than a clash.

Reading it

A Cong Sha structure on a Xin Metal day master that the engine reads as follow-weak — the chart does not attempt to stand on its own strength. The Yin–Wu half-trine resolving to Fire is what makes the power axis dominant enough for the follow reading to apply, and the Mao–Wu break is the friction inside it. Shang Guan on the year against Zheng Guan on the month is the same expressive-talent-versus-authority tension the tradition associates with comic and satirical registers, though the tradition is describing a temperament, not predicting a profession. No birth hour is recorded.

What this page does not claim

This is interpretation of a computed configuration, and the boundary matters. Nothing above says the chart caused anything, and nothing above was reverse-engineered from what the subject is known to have done. Where the birth hour is not on record, the hour pillar is absent rather than estimated.

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

Work out your own chart

Your own chart runs through the same engine: the free BaZi chart calculator takes a birth date and time. The BaZi glossary covers every term used above — the Ten Gods, the branch relations, the pillar positions — and the celebrity chart index has the rest of these profiles.

Birth data as held on file: 1962-06-22, hour unknown. The birth-data source is cited on the Chinese edition of this page.