Destiny Model (命理模型)
Your chart, mapped onto your space
Overview
Destiny Model is askTIAN’s flagship premium engine, fusing the person with the place. It first derives an individual’s elemental profile from their BaZi (Four Pillars) — the balance of Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water in their natal chart and which elements they lack or favour — then projects that profile onto feng-shui directionology. Personal Gua, favourable elements and the directions that nourish them are reconciled with a space’s sectors, so recommendations are tailored to who lives there, not just to the building. The result is a personalised directional strategy: which sectors to activate, which elements to introduce, and how the space can correct what the chart is missing.
Origin & history
It unites two pillars of Chinese metaphysics. BaZi (八字), the Four Pillars of Destiny, was systematised by Xu Ziping (徐子平) in the Song dynasty from earlier Tang methods of Li Xuzhong. The spatial half rests on Eight Mansions and the San Yuan compass lineage of Yang Yunsong, where a person’s Gua number assigns nourishing and draining directions. Linking natal element balance to directional cures is a longstanding consultative practice in classical Yang Zhai feng-shui.
Traditionally a destiny reading and a feng-shui audit were separate consultations by different specialists — one casting the BaZi, another walking the home. Joining them depended on a rare master fluent in both. askTIAN’s API synthesis computes the Four Pillars and the directional chart in one model, then runs the element-matching logic — a person short on Water benefiting from northern, water-element activation — automatically, delivering the bespoke cross-discipline advice that once required two experts.
How it works
You provide birth date, time and place plus the space’s facing and the occupant’s role. The engine builds the BaZi, scores the five-element balance, identifies useful and unfavourable elements, derives the Gua and its directions, then matches favourable elements to compass sectors and remedies. It weighs personal need against the space’s existing energy to prioritise activations. The askTIAN API returns the element profile, personalised auspicious directions, element-and-sector recommendations, and a 0–100 person-to-space compatibility score.
Good for
- Tailoring a home’s feng-shui to a specific person
- Correcting a missing or weak element through space
- Choosing a bedroom or desk by personal direction
- Aligning colours and materials to a natal profile
- Couples or families balancing differing charts
- Premium, whole-person consultations in one call
Use cases
Element-deficient chart
A profile lacking Fire receives sector activations, colours and placements that introduce the missing element at home.
Personal best-direction desk
Combine Gua directions with element needs to seat someone where both their chart and the room support focus and wealth.
Couple’s shared bedroom
Reconcile two BaZi profiles to find a sleeping direction and decor that serve both partners.
Career-phase tuning
Use the favourable-element output to emphasise wealth or recognition sectors aligned to the person’s chart.
Key terms
- BaZi 八字
- The Four Pillars of Destiny: eight characters from birth year, month, day and hour encoding one’s elemental makeup.
- Five Elements 五行
- Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water — the forces whose natal balance the model reads and corrects through space.
- Useful God 用神
- The element a chart most needs for balance; the engine targets it when prescribing directions and cures.
- Gua Number 命卦
- A personal trigram derived from birth and gender that assigns each individual their nourishing directions.
API
The askTIAN Destiny Model API returns the BaZi element profile, personalised auspicious directions, element-and-sector recommendations, and a 0–100 person-to-space compatibility score.
Endpoint: POST /trpc/fengshui.destinyModel — 20 TIAN Points. See the API documentation and Playground.