Approaches to handle the "missing" birth hour problem

A major problem affecting the accuracy of Bazi or most astrological methods is the "missing" or inaccurate birth hour reported.  

Astrological method like Zi-Wei-Dou-Shu is more birth hour sensitive than Bazi.  An incorrectly reported birth hour will affect the final reading drastically.  Bazi is more day-pillar focused, but sometimes incorrect hour will turn the reading upside-down!

The followings are some approaches to estimate the hour data using client's (DM):

1.  personality to estimate the hour
2.  birth order
3.  hair-ring on the head
4.  sleeping posture
5.  face shape
6.  length comparisons of certain fingers
7.  year moved, immigrated, major travel, career change

"Ken, which method do you use?"

"I plug in the 12 possible Chinese hours into the chart and see which hour fits the life experience of the client better."

"This takes a lot of time!"

"Not really when you use a 4P chart plotting program.  There is one such program that you can use in my website for free.  I can run through 12 possible hours in less than 10 minutes." 

Not everyone can use computer to do 4P charts, so the most common approach is doing 3 different charts-- one according to the hour reported, one "minus one hour" from the reported hour and one "plus one" hour.

When everything fails, my last resort is pulling out my cell phone.

"Call your friend or .......?"

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Methods for guessing birth hour for 4P reading

It is not unusal that someone want their 4P read but
do not have birth hour info.

This is a 25% missing data scenario!

Of course, we can try all 12 possible hour pillars,
but it is a lot of work. And the 4P reader cannot
charge more most of the time.

Here are the known methods to determine birth hour. I
do not show the actual details here, but at least you
know their existence.

Methods for guessing birth hour:

1. based on birth order of DM (hint: this is similar
to yin FS on reading the tombstone)

2. based on the sleeping posture of the DM

3. based on the location of DM's hair ring

4. based on events like moving, promotion, changing
job, immigration and studying aboard.

Ken Lai
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