Core Saju terms collected for newcomers — each with a one-line definition and a short explanation.
Saju is the four-column dataset of a person's year, month, day, and hour of birth — each column written as a pair of Heavenly Stem and Earthly Branch. The resulting eight characters form palja, the foundation from which Korean four-pillars astrology reads innate temperament and life cycles.
Read more →Saju and Saju-palja name the same dataset from two angles. Saju points to the four pillars — year, month, day, hour — while palja points to the eight characters that fill them.
Read more →Ohaeng is the five-element framework — wood, fire, earth, metal, water — used to classify the energies of nature and of people. The five elements move through a generating cycle (that nourishes) and an overcoming cycle (that restrains), and Saju reads a chart's balance through both.
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