Ten Gods in BaZi: How Relative Roles Are Read from the Day Master
Understand the Ten Gods in BaZi, including companion, output, wealth, influence, and resource roles, and how they are derived from the Day Master.
What the Ten Gods represent
The Ten Gods are not ten separate planets or objects. They are ten relationship patterns created by comparing another stem to the Day Master through element and polarity rules. In other words, they are a language for describing function inside the chart.
- Companion: peer energy, allies, sameness, and competition.
- Output: expression, ideas, delivery, teaching, and creation.
- Wealth: management of resources, business, exchange, and practical gain.
- Influence: structure, responsibility, pressure, standards, and accountability.
- Resource: learning, support, intake, protection, and recovery.
Why counts alone are not enough
People often search for a Ten Gods chart and assume the highest count automatically defines the person. That is too simple. Counts are useful for pattern recognition, but interpretation still depends on where those stems appear, whether they are visible or hidden, and what timing cycles activate them.
Horomo exposes flat counts across visible stems and hidden stems to make patterns easier to discover, but the page keeps the underlying chart visible so you can see where the pattern comes from.
How to read Ten Gods more accurately
Start by identifying the Day Master. Then note which Ten Gods show up repeatedly in visible stems, which appear mainly through hidden stems, and which show up in the current or upcoming luck pillars. This moves the reading from a static label toward a usable chart interpretation.