Saju Guide

Saju is Korea’s traditional art of reading a person through their birth date: four pillars, five elements, and sixty day signs. It looks complex, but the core ideas are friendly. Korean astrology, explained in plain English: no background needed, start anywhere.

What is Saju?

Korea’s Four Pillars of Destiny, from birth date to chart

Gunghap: Korean compatibility

What happens when two charts meet

Korean zodiac: day over year

Why your day animal beats your year animal

Saju vs. BaZi

Korea and China, reading the same chart

Saju vs. Western astrology

The Big Three, translated into four pillars

The 60 day signs

The full roster, with BaZi equivalents

Find your day sign

Why it takes a lookup, and the fast way

The five elements

Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water personalities

Friendship compatibility

Battery pairs, mirror pairs, whetstone pairs

Does birth time matter?

What the date gives you, what the hour adds

Korean fortune telling

Saju cafes, street booths, new year readings

Yin and yang in your chart

The tree and the vine: polarity, explained

Group chemistry

Five people hold ten pairs. Map them all