Ephemeris Table · every figure worked out on the page

Cards, charts and
four pillars.
All worked out
in front of you.

Cut a deck, cast a chart, count the elements in a birth date. Each answer comes with the working that produced it.

I Start here Seventy-Eight Cards The whole Rider–Waite–Smith deck, cut in your browser. Nothing to fill in — pick a spread and the cards are already on the table. nothing to fill in 1 min 78 cards, 3 spreads nothing is sent Cut the deck

The other tables

  1. II Sixty-Four Figures Three coins or fifty yarrow stalks — the two methods do not give the same odds, and the page throws both for real. All 384 lines in the original Chinese. nothing to fill in1 min64 figures, 2 methods
  2. III One Birth Moment, Four Systems Put in a date and a time. Four traditions read it side by side, and a line at the end shows where they agree. date & time1 min6 figures, 4 systems
  3. IV Four Pillars in Full All eight characters, the five elements counted across them, and the ten-year luck cycles. Solar terms computed, not rounded. date, time, sex2 min8 characters + luck cycles
  4. V Five Systems, One Day Five traditions answer the same date. Three of them land on one number under three different names, and the page shows you why. date only2 min5 figures, all working shown
  5. VI What a Name Adds Up To Two schools give the letters different numbers, so they read the same name differently. Both tables are printed underneath. any name1 min2 schools side by side

Nothing to fill in

The Same Dream, Five Traditions Falling, teeth coming loose, being chased, the exam you never studied for: the handful of dreams almost everyone has. Five traditions read each one side by side and contradict each other — and then, separately, what sleep research can and cannot actually say about any of it. Read it

What these tables are, and are not

Every figure here is arithmetic.

A sun sign is a date range. A life path number is a sum of digits. A day pillar is a count of days since a fixed point in the sexagenary cycle. All of it can be repeated by hand, and each page shows how. What those figures are supposed to mean is a tradition’s claim — we report the claim, we do not vouch for it.

Where a system needs more than a birthday, we say so.

A rising sign and the twelve Zi Wei palaces need your exact coordinates and a real ephemeris, not a date and a guess. Rather than print a confident answer built on a city we assumed, those are left out and named as left out. A chart that never admits a gap has no gaps because it filled them in for you.

Nothing you type is sent anywhere.

Birthdays, birth times and names are all computed by JavaScript on the page in front of you. They are not uploaded, not stored, and not recoverable by us afterwards. The privacy page lists the handful of things that are recorded — which page loaded, and whether you got to the end.

Two of these systems are the same sum.

Western numerology, the Pythagorean letter table and the tarot birth card all reduce a number by adding its digits until one digit is left. Feed them the same date and they agree, every time, by construction. That is worth knowing before you take agreement between two systems as evidence that either one works.