Is there more to Chinese astrology than the element and animal?
There is one method called the Four Pillars of Destiny or Ba Zhi (Eight Characters in Chinese). This method employs four columns (called pillars) divded into two rows, hence, giving you eight characters, two characters per pillar. In this method of Chinese astrology, your year, month, day, and hour of birth is taken into consideration. Each of this information forms a single pillar. You have a year pillar, month pillar, day pillar, and hour pillar. In each pillar the top row contains the heavenly stems and the bottom rows contain the earthly branches. The earthly branches are the tweleve zodiac signs you are familar with. This mean, in each four pillars chart you can have up to four different animal signs. While the heavenly stems are made up of the five elements (wood, fire, earth, metal, and water). So from your year pillar, Metal is your heavenly stem and Horse is your earthly branch. To give yourself a better and more accurate picture of your astrology, you would need your month, d
