Warren Buffett — BaZi Chart Analysis

Warren Buffett (1930–) is an American investor and philanthropist, long-time chairman and former CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, and one of the most influential value investors in history. Fascinated by business and stocks from a young age, he refined his philosophy at Columbia Business School under Benjamin Graham’s value-investing framework, then launched his own partnerships in 1956.

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: 壬 (Ren, yang Water). The engine reads this chart's day master as somewhat strong, 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 — 偏印 (Pian Yin): unorthodox support — self-taught, oblique, private.
• Month stem — 食神 (Shi Shen): the output — expression, craft, ease of production.
• Hour stem — 七杀 (Qi Sha): pressure — authority experienced as force.

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 Ren day master — it generalises to charts with this configuration, which is a much smaller set.

The branch relations the engine found

• 三合半合 · a half-trine — 申 (Shen) / 子 (Zi), in the month and day branches, resolving to Water. Two of the three branches of a trine frame, so the pull toward that element is real but partial.
• 六冲 · a direct clash — 子 (Zi) / 午 (Wu), in the day and year branches. Opposition between two branches — the classic marker of a position that will not hold still.

Reading it

A somewhat strong Ren Water day master in a Pian Yin structure with Shi Shen on the month — unorthodox resource feeding steady output, which is close to the textbook shape for sustained independent judgment. The Shen–Zi half-trine resolving to Water strengthens the day master further, while the Zi–Wu clash across the year and day branches is the counterweight. Qi Sha on the hour adds pressure at the end of the chart rather than the beginning. All four pillars are present here, which is not true of most profiles in this corpus.

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

If you want the same table for yourself, the BaZi chart calculator computes it from a birth date and time. Terms are defined in the BaZi glossary; other charted figures are indexed at celebrity charts.

Birth data as held on file: 1930-08-30, hour 15. The birth-data source is cited on the Chinese edition of this page.