Crush Check
Made on November 13, 2026
Your Match Score
The free calculator compares your two birth years. This reading compares both full birth charts, so the number can differ.
How to read this report
- Each of your charts is four columns (the Four Pillars 四柱): birth year, month, day and hour. Each column has an element on top and an animal below. A chart with no birth time has no hour column, so this report reads that chart from its other three columns.
- The part that stands for each of you is your core self (Day Master 日主), the element at the top of your birth-day column. Your year animals, the signs most people know, are the animals at the bottom of your birth-year columns: a different part of the chart. Each birth month, the season you were born into, counts extra in how much backing a core self gets.
- The five elements (五行), Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water, are phases that feed each other and keep each other in check. They are not the Western Fire, Earth, Air and Water.
- Your match score out of 100 blends seven parts, weighted for romance. Each part has its own neutral value, from 45 to 60, where it stays when your charts show nothing for it, so a middling number often means nothing was found. A part at 70 or more is a strong link; one under 45 marks something to handle with more care, not a verdict.
This report has short notes for readers who know Western astrology: where the two systems meet exactly, and where they part.
How Your Animals Match
What's this? Classical animal match
The classical animal match reads your two year animals as a pair, the oldest and best-known layer of Chinese compatibility. It looks at the birth years only, so the readings that use your full charts can say more, or say something different. (Classical term: zodiac animal matching 生肖配对.)
Bright and confident, Dragon and Rooster form a Six Harmony that makes Metal; big vision and careful detail can turn shared plans into achievements.
If you know Western astrology
Natural Pair (Six Harmony 六合) has no one fixed angle on the twelve-animal wheel (its pairs sit at different distances), so no single Western aspect stands for it. Only the shape carries over: the animals mark years, months, days and hours, not constellations, and each link keeps its Ba Zi reading, never the Western meaning of an aspect.
Your Most Personal Link (Day Pillar Bond 日柱)
What's this? Most personal link
Your most personal link compares your two birth-day columns. The element on top is each person's core self; the animal below is each person's partner seat, read for closeness and everyday life together. It is where two charts meet at their most personal point. (Classical term: Day Pillar Bond 日柱, with the partner seat, the Spouse Palace 日支.)
In Ba Zi your birth-day column (the Day Pillar) holds the self, and its animal is your partner seat (日支), so it is the most personal place where two charts meet. Here are your two Day Pillars, read stem to stem and branch to branch.
Key: the top character is an element and the bottom one an animal. Each column is one person's birth day and stands for them: its top element is their core self.
- Day Stem
- Neutral
- Bond Score
- 58
Your Day Stems have a neutral relationship, meaning there's neither a powerful magnetic pull nor an inherent friction between your core identities. This creates a steady, comfortable baseline where you can relate to each other without the intensity of combination or the tension of clash. Your connection in this dimension is calm and unforced.
Your Day Branches have a neutral relationship, meaning your domestic rhythms and private needs neither strongly align nor strongly conflict. This gives you a clean canvas: your shared home life and intimate connection will be shaped more by your choices than by chart dynamics. There's room here to build exactly the private world you both want.
Your Day Pillars have a balanced, steady relationship without dramatic highs or lows. This neutrality is actually a stable foundation: it means your core selves can coexist without friction, even if the spark needs to be kindled through other chart dimensions. Many lasting partnerships thrive on exactly this kind of quiet compatibility.
If you know Western astrology
Each core self (Day Master 日主) does the job a Sun sign does, the "you" a reading starts from, so setting two core selves side by side asks what comparing two Sun signs asks. Where the comparison stops: a core self comes from the birth day, counted in a cycle of ten days, not from the Sun's place in the sky, and what one is to the other comes from their elements and their Yin or Yang, not from an angle between them.
Your 7-Part Score Chart
What's this? Match score
Your match score compares your two full birth charts in seven parts: how your core selves meet, your animal links, your element balance, your element bonds, the attraction and helper markers, and your most personal link. Each part starts from its own neutral value and moves only when the charts show something, so a middling score often means nothing was found. (Classical term: Ba Zi compatibility 八字合婚.)
Seven classical measures of how two charts meet, each scored out of 100 and read for your own number.
- How your core selves meet · Day Master 日主
Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton have the same type of core self, Yin Metal: a classical twin pairing. You tend to recognize each other quickly, and you may both want the same room.
What this measures
How your core selves meet: this score reads what each core self, the element at the top of a birth-day column, is to the other: a twin, a sibling, a source of support, an attraction or a challenge.
- Animal links · Branches 地支
Harmonies outweigh frictions across your branches, so the everyday side of life together, from routines to rest, tends to flow easily.
What this measures
Every animal in one chart is compared with every animal in the other. Natural Pairs raise the score; Opposite Animals, Hidden Friction, Repeating Tests, Self-Pressure and Disruptions lower it.
- Element balance · Five Elements 五行
At least one of you holds plenty of an element the other needs, a classical picture of balance where strengths fill gaps.
What this measures
Weighs the five elements in your two charts. It rises when one of you has plenty of what the other needs, and dips when you share the same gap or excess.
- Element bonds · Stems 天干
Your Heavenly Stems combine more than they clash, a classical sign of affinity, so your thinking tends to run along similar lines.
What this measures
Compares the elements on top of your columns across your two charts. Pairs that combine, a classical sign of affinity, raise the score; pairs that clash, a sign of differing approaches, lower it.
- Attraction marker · Peach Blossom 桃花
One or both of you light up the other's Peach Blossom, the classical marker of attraction, a traditional sign of natural chemistry between you.
What this measures
Whether one of you sparks the other: this score checks whether an animal in one chart lights up the other's charm marker, the classical sign of attraction, in one direction or both.
- Most personal link · Day Pillar 日柱
Your partner seats meet on fairly even ground, with no strong tie or only a mild or balanced mix of pulls, so closeness tends to grow steadily with the time you share.
What this measures
Your birth-day columns side by side, your core selves on top and your partner seats below. This score compares them, the most personal part of a romantic match.
- Helper marker · Noble Helper 贵人
Your Noble Helper link runs one way or both, a classical sign that help between you tends to arrive at the right moment.
What this measures
Whether you help each other when it counts: this score checks whether one chart holds one of the other's helper animals, for one of you or both.
Your Two Element Mixes (Five Elements 五行)
What's this? Element mix
Your element mix shows how much of each of the five elements your chart holds, counting the elements on top of the columns and those hidden inside the animals. A big share is not good and a small one is not bad. Your balancing element, called favorable, is the one that evens your chart out, and it is often one your chart holds little of. The five elements are phases that feed each other and keep each other in check, not the Western Fire, Earth, Air and Water. (Classical terms: Five Elements 五行; the balancing element is the Useful God 用神.)
The full Relationship Compatibility Report explains what your elements mean together.
Your Strongest Link
Element bonds · Stems 天干90
Your Heavenly Stems combine. Creative projects together will feel easier than they should; use that.
Where to Grow
Most personal link · Day Pillar 日柱58
Your Day Pillars, the columns of your two birth days, neither pull together nor push apart. This is a quiet link, so it grows with what you put in: shared routines, and time that belongs to just the two of you.