Warren Buffett's Saju Chart
Investor. Only the steady form of Wealth, bracketing a Balanced Yang Water chart, with Resource feeding it from two directions.
Warren Buffett's Day Master is Yang Water (壬), reading as Balanced, with Fire the dominant element at 25%. The four pillars are 庚午 甲申 壬子 丁未.
Day Master
Yang Water (壬) · Balanced
Birth Data
Local clock 15:00 → true solar 13:36 (95.9°W, -84 min)
Time source: Obtained from Buffett himself via the Paul Hewitt collection, recorded in Astro-Databank (Rodden A) · rated A · source
The Four Pillars
Five Element Balance
Day Master Strength: Balanced
Your chart is well-balanced — you move easily between leading and adapting.
The Chart vs. The Real Life
Direct Wealth in the year branch and again in the hour stem, with no Indirect Wealth in any stem or branch — only the steady form of Wealth, bracketing the chart.
A method built on holding ordinary businesses for decades rather than on trading them; Berkshire has paid a dividend once in sixty years.
Indirect Resource in the year stem and again in the month branch — input arriving from outside the obvious channel, twice over.
Learned the method from Benjamin Graham at Columbia after Harvard turned him down, and has described reading several hundred pages a day since.
Eating God in the month stem on a Balanced Day Master — patient Output sitting at the seat of the chart.
Sixty years of annual shareholder letters written himself in plain language, kept as the main channel of explanation.
What a full reading covers
The comparison above is one small slice — Warren Buffett's full chart, read the way yours would be, goes much deeper across 15 chapters:
- Who you are — your Day Master, elemental balance, and core profile
- Love & connection — how you bond, your patterns, your seasons for it
- Career, money & the work that fits you
- Your symbolic stars & natural talents — and your power element (favourable element)
- Your 10-year luck pillars, a year-by-year forecast (2026–2032), and a month-by-month guide to the year ahead
- Strengths, blind spots, and a few things to actually do
Questions
What is Warren Buffett's BaZi (Saju) chart?
Warren Buffett's Day Master is Yang Water (壬), reading as Balanced, with Fire the dominant element at 25%. The four pillars are 庚午 甲申 壬子 丁未. It is calculated from Warren Buffett's public birth record and corrected to true solar time for the birth longitude.
What is Warren Buffett's Day Master?
Warren Buffett's Day Master is Yang Water (壬) — the stem of the day pillar, which is the reference point every other character in the chart is read against.
Is Warren Buffett's Day Master strong or weak?
The engine reads this chart as Balanced. Your chart is well-balanced — you move easily between leading and adapting.
What element is Warren Buffett?
The Day Master element is Water. Across the whole chart the dominant element is Fire at 25%, and the full balance is Wood 13%, Fire 25%, Earth 13%, Metal 25%, Water 25%.
Is Warren Buffett's Saju chart the same as a BaZi chart?
Yes. Saju is the Korean name for the Four Pillars system; BaZi (八字) is the Chinese name for the same system. Given the same birth data, both produce an identical chart — the same characters, the same Day Master.
Read the full Saju vs BaZi comparison →When was Warren Buffett born?
Warren Buffett was born 1930-08-30, Omaha, Nebraska, USA. The chart uses a birth time of 15:00. Source: Obtained from Buffett himself via the Paul Hewitt collection, recorded in Astro-Databank (Rodden A).
Why does the birth time matter for a Saju chart?
The birth time sets the hour pillar — two of the eight characters — and it is also why the birth place matters: the hour is measured in true solar time, so the same clock time in two cities can produce a different hour pillar.
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Same Day Master as Warren Buffett
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