Honestly, it began with curiosity. The old Chinese way of reading a birth date stands a life on four pillars: the year, the month, the day and the hour. The more we read about it, the more it pulled us in, and the more questions we had.
So we went to the people who do it for a living. We spent time talking with Chinese feng shui masters, asking how they build a chart and why they read it the way they do. The more we talked, the clearer it became that what decides a chart is the quiet calculation underneath.
Take the start of spring. In this tradition the year turns at Lichun, not on January 1, so a minute before it and a minute after it give you a different year pillar, and the whole chart moves with it. Or take the clock: at eight in the morning Beijing time, the sun in Urumqi stands where it would at about six. Get small things like these wrong and you are reading someone else's chart.
We didn't want "close enough" deciding anyone's chart, so we built our own engine to get these things right. It works from NASA's planetary data, and every reading on this site starts from it. On top of it, several traditions from East and West read your chart side by side. Sometimes they agree and sometimes they don't, and where they don't, we say so instead of smoothing it over.
So here you can ask a very specific question: which cities suit you. And if you want something to keep, our studio shop on Etsy has a few things. The words in a reading are written with AI assistance and checked against your chart, so nothing is said that your chart doesn't contain.
A reading is not a prediction, and we promise no outcome. What we can do is make plain what your chart says. What you do with it is yours.