Two charts together (合婚)
How does BaZi read two people?
合婚 (hé hūn) compares two charts to understand how two people fit. The serious method reads the day pillar (your day of birth), not the birth-year animal, which is the one correction that matters most: couples whose year animals "clash" but whose day pillars fit are happy all the time. It is a lens for a relationship's dynamics, where you complement and where you rub, never a verdict on whether two people should be together.
Pick each person's animal below, add day stems if you know them, and read the pairing. The deeper the layers you add, the truer the read.
The four layers
What a full pairing weighs
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The two Day Masters
Compare each person's day stem. Ranked by ease: the stems combine (most harmonious), one generates the other, the stems are the same, or one controls the other.
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The two spouse palaces
The day branch is the home of the partnership. When the two day branches combine or form a trine it reads as affection and unity; a clash, punishment, or harm reads as friction to work through.
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The missing-piece match
The deepest read: the element one person has too much of is exactly the element the other lacks, so each fills the other's gap.
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The zodiac layer
The popular surface. The six harmonies, trines, and clashes among the animals, the same rules serious readers apply to the day branch, not the birth year.
Compatibility here is a lens for understanding a relationship's dynamics, never a verdict on whether two people should be together. Clashing charts build deep, lasting bonds all the time; easy charts still need effort. It reads tendencies, not fate.