Steve Jobs's BaZi Chart: A Full Four-Pillar Reading
Steve Jobs has a birth record good enough to fix all four pillars, hour included. Here is the chart, why the hour survives the solar-time correction, and where the reading stops.
Most celebrity charts stop at three pillars because the birth hour never got written down. Steve Jobs is different: the record is graded at the top of the scale, and the hour holds.
Key takeaways (~30 sec)
- The four pillars are 乙未, 戊寅, 丙辰, 丁酉, with 丙 Yang Fire as the Day Master.
- The birth record is graded AA, the highest tier, on a birth certificate rather than memory.
- Solar-time correction moves the recorded 19:15 back to about 18:52, which stays inside the 酉 hour.
- The correction is real and the margin is 8 minutes, so the hour belongs to a case worth checking rather than assuming.
- The reading stops where the record stops: what the chart holds, not what it caused.
Why this chart can be read in full
The four pillars for Steve Jobs are 乙未, 戊寅, 丙辰, 丁酉. The Day Master is 丙, Yang Fire.
| Pillar | Heavenly Stem | Earthly Branch |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 乙 Yǐ, Yin Wood | 未 Wèi, the Goat branch, Earth |
| Month | 戊 Wù, Yang Earth | 寅 Yín, the Tiger branch, Wood |
| Day | 丙 Bǐng, Yang Fire (Day Master) | 辰 Chén, the Dragon branch, Earth |
| Hour | 丁 Dīng, Yin Fire | 酉 Yǒu, the Rooster branch, Metal |
The date is 24 February 1955, in San Francisco. The hour on the record is 19:15.
The number is not what makes the hour usable. Its origin is. Astro-Databank grades each entry for source quality, and the grade for this one is AA, defined as a birth record or birth certificate in hand. That sits at the top of the scale. The grades below it cover data from memory, from family recollection, or from sources that contradict each other.
An AA grade does not make a chart true. It makes the hour a document rather than a rumor, which is the only thing that lets a fourth pillar be read at all.
The solar-time check, and the eight minutes
A recorded clock time and a chart time are two different things. The clock in San Francisco in 1955 ran on Pacific Standard Time, which is pegged to the 120th meridian. San Francisco sits at about 122 degrees west, so the sun crosses its meridian later than the clock's noon.
The correction runs about 9.7 minutes. The equation of time, the seasonal gap between a sundial and a clock, adds another 13.9 minutes in late February. Run both and 19:15 lands near 18:52.
That number matters because of where the hour boundaries fall. The 酉 hour runs from 17:00 to 19:00, and the 戌 hour picks up at 19:00. A clock reading of 19:15 sits in 戌. The corrected reading of 18:52 sits in 酉, and the two produce different hour pillars.
| Reading | Time | Hour branch | Hour pillar |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clock time as recorded | 19:15 | 戌 | 戊戌 |
| Corrected for true solar time | about 18:52 | 酉 | 丁酉 |
The margin is eight minutes. Put that another way: this is a chart where the hour boundary sits close to the birth time, and the direction of the correction is what decides it. A reader who skips the solar-time step gets a different fourth pillar and has no way to notice.
That eight minutes is why this chart is worth writing about at all. It is the same class of problem as the one the site sets out in why the hour pillar can move, and Jobs happens to be a case where the document is solid and the correction still does the deciding.
What the four pillars hold
Read the eight characters and a few relationships carry the day.
The month branch is 寅, the Tiger, which carries Wood. The Day Master is 丙 Fire, and Wood feeds Fire, so the chart is born into the season that supplies its own element. The month command supports it.
The year stem is 乙, Yin Wood, and the year branch 未 carries Earth. The day branch 辰 carries Earth as well. Earth drains Fire, and there are two Earth characters in the lower positions.
The hour pillar 丁酉 brings a Yin Fire on top of Metal. The hour stem 丁 belongs to the same element as the Day Master, which gives the chart a second Fire in the hour position.
Tally the eight characters and the count comes out Fire 2, Wood 2, Earth 2, Metal 1, Water 1. Anyone entering 24 February 1955 with 19:15 in the same system gets the same eight characters and the same count back.
That is the grid. It is a set of relations between eight characters, and it stops well short of describing a person.
The luck cycles beside the record
The luck cycles are ten-year periods that layer over a chart. They run from the month pillar forwards or backwards, and the direction comes from the polarity of the birth year's stem together with the person's gender. The year stem here is 乙, a Yin stem, and the chart is male, so the sequence runs backwards from 戊寅.
| Cycle | Ages | Approximate years |
|---|---|---|
| 丁丑 Dīng Chǒu | 7 to 17 | 1962 to 1972 |
| 丙子 Bǐng Zǐ | 17 to 27 | 1972 to 1982 |
| 乙亥 Yǐ Hài | 27 to 37 | 1982 to 1992 |
| 甲戌 Jiǎ Xū | 37 to 47 | 1992 to 2002 |
| 癸酉 Guǐ Yǒu | 47 to 57 | 2002 to 2012 |
| 壬申 Rén Shēn | 57 to 67 | 2012 to 2022 |
| 辛未 Xīn Wèi | 67 to 77 | 2022 to 2032 |
The public record sets beside these periods, and a reader can lay the two columns next to each other. Apple was founded in 1976, inside the 丙子 cycle. The company was founded again in spirit in 1997, when he returned, inside 甲戌. The iPhone arrived in 2007, inside 癸酉. Each of those years is a date a reader can check, and each of them is a comparison rather than an explanation.
Set them beside the cycles and note what the pairing does not claim. The chart does not say a company would be founded, or a device would ship, or a return would happen. It says two things happened in the same decade, one in the record and one in the sequence. Reading the first as caused by the second is the move this site declines to make.
Where the reading stops
A chart of eight characters supports a description. It supports a question a reader can hold against their own life. It does not support a verdict, and this one carries no verdict about a career, a temperament, or a death.
The hour is where most celebrity charts fall down, and it is why the same figure tends to get built three different ways on three different sites. Jobs is worth keeping as the counterexample: a documented hour, a correction that matters, and a fourth pillar that holds once the arithmetic is done.
A reader with a birth time of their own sits in the same position as this chart does. The hour is only as good as the document behind it, and the boundary case is worth checking rather than assuming.
FAQ
These are the questions that tend to come up once a chart has all four pillars and the source grade is the reason why.
Are Steve Jobs's four pillars 乙未, 戊寅, 丙辰, 丁酉? Yes, on the recorded birth time of 19:15 on 24 February 1955 in San Francisco, adjusted for true solar time. The Day Master is 丙.
What does the AA grade mean? It is the top tier in the standard catalog of birth data, defined as a birth record or birth certificate in hand. The grades beneath it cover memory, family recollection, and sources that conflict.
Why does the hour change after correction? The clock used a standard meridian, and the birth city sits west of it, so the sun ran late against the clock. Correcting brings the reading back across the 19:00 boundary and from 戌 into 酉.
Is the correction close to the boundary? Yes. The corrected time lands about eight minutes inside the 酉 hour. That is why the step gets documented rather than skipped.
Does the chart predict what happened in those decades? No. The record is placed beside the cycles for comparison. GPTbazi presents chart patterns for entertainment and self-reflection and does not predict events, and it offers no medical, legal, financial, or psychological advice. Questions in those areas belong with a qualified professional.
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