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The Korean Saju Guide

Everything you need to understand saju (사주) — Korean four pillars of destiny — explained in plain English. Start with the basics, learn how a chart is built, decode the five elements and your Day Master, then explore timing, career, compatibility and your Korean zodiac. Every guide is free to read, and you can get your own chart in about a minute.

Start here — saju basics

New to saju? These four guides explain what it is and how a reading works.

Saju Reading Online

What Korean saju is, how an online reading works, and how to get a free one from your birth date and hour.

How To Read a Saju Chart

A beginner's step-by-step walkthrough of the eight characters and how to interpret them.

Korean Fortune Telling Explained

How saju, the zodiac, and other Korean fortune-telling traditions fit together.

Saju vs Chinese BaZi

The shared eight-character root and where Korean saju and Chinese BaZi differ.

Read your chart — pillars & elements

Build your chart and learn what each part means.

Korean Four Pillars Calculator

How your year, month, day, and hour pillars are built from your birth date.

Free Saju Calculator

Get a free four pillars reading from your birth date — no sign-up needed.

The Five Elements in Saju

Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water — what each element means in your chart.

Korean Day Master Test

Find your Day Master — the core of your personality in Korean saju.

What Your Birth Time Means

The hour pillar explained — what your birth time adds to a reading.

Timing, career & the year ahead

Saju Daewoon — 10-Year Luck Cycle

How your decade-long luck cycles shape the seasons of your life.

Saju Career Reading

What your four pillars suggest about the work that fits how you are built.

Saju 2026 Yearly Reading

Your Fire Horse year outlook, read from your own birth chart.

Love & compatibility (gunghap)

Saju Compatibility Explained

How Korean love compatibility (gunghap) actually works.

Saju Marriage Compatibility

What a traditional gunghap marriage reading checks between two charts.

Compatibility by Birth Date

How two birth dates match in a saju love reading.

Compatibility Test for Couples

A free Korean gunghap match you can run together.

Korean zodiac & more

Korean Zodiac by Birth Year

Find your zodiac animal and element from your birth year.

What Is My Korean Zodiac Animal?

Look up your zodiac animal by birth year — free.

Korean Saju Apps Compared

How the main saju apps stack up for an English reading.

Read your saju free on Telegram

Get your four pillars, Day Master, and Five Elements in plain English — in about a minute.

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