Timing with astrology and BaZi: when, not just what

Lumia reads timing on three clocks: today from the daily score, the season from transits, and the decade from BaZi’s luck pillars. Most of what a chart says about you is fixed. Timing is the part that moves, and it’s the part people ask about most: is now the time. Each clock answers a different “when”, and the table below shows which one your question needs.

Today: the daily score

Every morning Lumia sets the sky against your chart and the day’s element against your BaZi, then writes a number and a message: what today favours, what it doesn’t, and the one thing to do with it. The score isn’t a mood. It measures which of your planets are being touched and how. A high day and a low day ask for different things, and the message says which. It’s free.

The season: transits

Slow planets make the seasons. Saturn takes about two and a half years to cross a house and demands discipline there. Jupiter takes about a year and brings increase. Uranus and Pluto take longer and change the ground under you. Lumia’s transit reading names what’s active against your chart this month, what it asks and how long it lasts. This is the reading for “should I make the move this quarter”.

The decade: luck pillars

BaZi divides a life into ten-year pillars. The one you’re in either feeds your chart, by supplying the element you’re short of, or drains it. A career decade, a family decade, a decade for consolidating: you can read these in advance. The annual pillar does the same for the year. Lumia’s LifePrint draws the decades as an arc and names the season you’re in. How to read a BaZi chart.

Putting the clocks together

QuestionClockReading
Should I have the conversation today?DayDaily score and message
Is this the quarter to change jobs?SeasonTransit reading
What is this stretch of my life for?DecadeLifePrint, BaZi luck pillar
Is now the time for this specific choice?All threeThe three clocks, plus a Yes or No card for the choice itself

A good decision in the wrong season costs more than it should. Timing tells you which season you’re in. Decisions.

Frequently asked questions

What is a transit?

A planet in the sky now making an angle to a planet or point in your birth chart: Saturn crossing your Sun, Jupiter entering your seventh house, the Moon on your Venus. Fast planets make transits that last hours or days; slow ones last months or years. Lumia's transit reading names the ones active against your chart now.

What is the daily score?

Lumia's one-number summary of today against your chart: the transits in play, weighted by how exact and how strong they are, plus the day's element against your BaZi. It sits at the top of Today, and the reading under it says what the number is made of.

What are luck pillars?

BaZi's ten-year periods. Each has a stem and branch that meets your chart differently: one decade supplies what you're short of, another adds to your excess. They're the long clock; transits are the short one.

Is the transit reading free?

The transit map, the daily card, message and score are free. The written transit reading (what's moving against your chart this month and what it asks) is Premium, $8.99 a month, first week free for new subscribers.

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