The Royals
BaZi deep dive into the British Royal Family
Individual BaZi Charts
King Charles III
King of the United Kingdom
"His chart shows a late-life power surge — becoming King at 73 is written in his decade pillars"
14 November 1948 at 21:14
Buckingham Palace, London
Four Pillars (八字)
Year
戊子
Wu Zi
Earth Rat
Direct Officer (正官)
Bath 沐浴
Month
癸亥
Gui Hai
Water Pig
Preparation 冠带
Day
癸卯
Gui Mao
Water Rabbit
Self
Conception 胎
Hour
癸亥
Gui Hai
Water Pig
Preparation 冠带
Prince Harry
Duke of Sussex
"Their BaZi charts predicted the Royal split before it happened"
15 September 1984 at 16:20
Lindo Wing, St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London
Four Pillars (八字)
Year
甲子
Jia Zi
Wood Rat
Eating God (食神)
Bath 沐浴
Month
癸酉
Gui You
Water Rooster
Rob Wealth (劫财)
Conception 胎
Day
壬子
Ren Zi
Water Rat
Self
Bath 沐浴
Hour
戊申
Wu Shen
Earth Monkey
7 Killings (七杀)
End 绝
Meghan Markle
Duchess of Sussex
"Why Meghan's chart always pulled her away from institutions"
4 August 1981 at 04:46
West Park Hospital, Canoga Park, Los Angeles, California
Four Pillars (八字)
Year
辛酉
Xin You
Metal Rooster
Direct Officer (正官)
Death 死
Month
乙未
Yi Wei
Wood Goat
Rob Wealth (劫财)
Aging 衰
Day
甲寅
Jia Yin
Wood Tiger
Self
Birth 长生
Hour
丙寅
Bing Yin
Fire Tiger
Eating God (食神)
Birth 长生
Prince William
Prince of Wales
"The future King's chart — duty, loyalty, and the weight of the Crown"
21 June 1982 at 21:03
St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London
Four Pillars (八字)
Year
壬戌
Ren Xu
Water Dog
Direct Resource (正印)
Sickness 病
Month
丙午
Bing Wu
Fire Horse
Hurting Officer (伤官)
Conception 胎
Day
乙亥
Yi Hai
Wood Pig
Self
Aging 衰
Hour
丁亥
Ding Hai
Fire Pig
Eating God (食神)
Aging 衰
Princess Catherine
Princess of Wales
"Catherine and Meghan share the same year pillar — Metal Rooster women who reshape the Monarchy"
9 January 1982 at 12:00
Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading
Four Pillars (八字)
Year
辛酉
Xin You
Metal Rooster
Direct Resource (正印)
Conception 胎
Month
辛丑
Xin Chou
Metal Ox
Direct Resource (正印)
Preparation 冠带
Day
壬辰
Ren Chen
Water Dragon
Self
Aging 衰
Hour
丙午
Bing Wu
Fire Horse
Indirect Wealth (偏财)
Death 死
Prince George
Prince of Wales (eldest son)
"The next generation — what BaZi reveals about the future heir's destiny"
22 July 2013 at 16:24
St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London
Four Pillars (八字)
Year
癸巳
Gui Si
Water Snake
Indirect Wealth (偏财)
Preparation 冠带
Month
己未
Ji Wei
Earth Goat
Birth 长生
Day
己丑
Ji Chou
Earth Ox
Self
Sickness 病
Hour
壬申
Ren Shen
Water Monkey
Direct Wealth (正财)
Nurture 养
Princess Diana
Princess of Wales (1961–1997)
"The People's Princess — her chart reveals why she was destined to transform the Monarchy forever"
1 July 1961 at 19:45
Park House, Sandringham, Norfolk
Four Pillars (八字)
Year
辛丑
Xin Chou
Metal Ox
7 Killings (七杀)
Arrival 临官
Month
甲午
Jia Wu
Wood Horse
Rob Wealth (劫财)
Conception 胎
Day
乙未
Yi Wei
Wood Goat
Self
End 绝
Hour
丙戌
Bing Xu
Fire Dog
Hurting Officer (伤官)
Sickness 病
Cosmic Compatibility — King Charles III & Princess Diana
King Charles III's Water nourishes Princess Diana's Wood
The foundational elemental dynamic of this pair
Your Water and Wood elements create a supportive flow where Water nourishes Wood, but the strong Water presence can overwhelm the delicate Wood. This dynamic fosters growth through emotional depth, though it requires careful balance to prevent one energy from dominating.
Your spatial energies show complementary patterns: one brings stability and tradition, while the other introduces innovation and change. This creates a dynamic where established structures meet fresh perspectives, requiring intentional space management to harmonize.
Your timing cycles reveal periods of alignment during transformative phases. While daily rhythms may differ, your life stages intersect at key moments of personal evolution, creating opportunities for mutual growth during transitional times.
Traditional compatibility indicators show a connection with strong karmic lessons. The pairing suggests a relationship that serves as a catalyst for personal development, with complementary strengths that can create balance when consciously nurtured.
Core Energy Dynamics
Your connection works like a river meeting a forest - the water provides essential nourishment for growth, while the trees help channel and structure the flow. This creates a dynamic where emotional depth fuels creative expression, and structure gives form to feelings.
Your combined elements create a nurturing ecosystem where deep emotions (Water) feed creative expression (Wood), but require conscious management to prevent emotional overwhelm or creative stagnation.
Strengthening
Challenges
- +Mutual growth through challenge
- +Complementary emotional and practical strengths
- +Ability to transform each other's perspectives
- !Balancing emotional intensity with practical needs
- !Creating shared daily rhythms
- !Honoring different processing styles
Feng Shui Recommendations
Home
Place a small indoor water feature in the northeast corner of your shared spaces to balance the Wood energy and create harmonious flow.
Colors
Timing & Advice
The current period favors deep emotional work and restructuring relationship patterns. It's an excellent time for honest conversations about needs and boundaries.
Focus on creating structured emotional check-ins where both parties feel heard without pressure to resolve everything immediately.
Cosmic Compatibility — Prince William & Princess Catherine
Princess Catherine's Water nourishes Prince William's Wood
The foundational elemental dynamic of this pair
Your Water and Wood elements create a supportive cycle where Catherine's Water nourishes William's Wood, fostering growth and understanding. The Fire elements in both charts provide warmth and passion, creating a balanced elemental flow.
Your spatial energies complement each other with William's Earth-heavy chart providing stability to Catherine's more fluid Water-Metal combination. This creates a grounded yet adaptable environment.
Your timing cycles align remarkably well with both born in 1982, creating shared generational understanding. Your day officers (Initiate and Balance) work together beautifully for action and harmony.
Traditional compatibility indicators show strong alignment with complementary day masters (Wood and Water) and supportive useful gods (Resource and Friend) in both charts.
Core Energy Dynamics
Your connection works like a well-tended garden where Catherine's Water provides nourishment for William's Wood to grow strong, while William's Earth provides the stable soil for Catherine's ideas to take root.
Your combined elements create a balanced ecosystem with Water nourishing Wood, Wood feeding Fire, and Earth providing stability - representing emotional support, growth, passion, and practicality.
Strengthening
Challenges
- +Exceptional mutual support system
- +Shared generational perspective
- +Complementary strengths in action vs harmony
- !Balancing direct vs diplomatic communication styles
- !Managing different energy cycles throughout the day
- !Integrating practical vs idealistic approaches
Feng Shui Recommendations
Home
Place a small water feature in your shared living space to enhance Catherine's Water element and nourish William's Wood, preferably in the East sector.
Colors
Wear or incorporate blue and green tones together this week to strengthen your Water-Wood connection during important conversations.
Timing & Advice
Their aligned birth years (both 1982) mean they navigate similar developmental phases together — a rare synchronicity that creates natural rhythm in both public duty and private life. Their decade pillars reinforce each other rather than pulling apart.
This is a pairing where Water genuinely nourishes Wood — Catherine's steady, adaptive Water energy gives William's Wood the emotional foundation to grow into his role. The key to their longevity lies in protecting private space from institutional pressure, allowing the Water-Wood cycle to regenerate naturally.
Cosmic Compatibility — Prince Harry & Meghan Markle
Prince Harry's Water nourishes Meghan Markle's Wood
The foundational elemental dynamic of this pair
Your Water and Wood elements create a supportive flow where Harry's Water nourishes Meghan's Wood, fostering growth and resilience. The Metal in Meghan's chart provides structure to Harry's fluid nature.
Your spatial energies show complementary strengths—Harry's European royal heritage brings tradition and stability, while Meghan's Californian roots add innovation and adaptability, creating a balanced environment.
Your timing cycles align well, with both having significant life transitions in recent years that prepared you for this partnership. Current astrological transits favor collaborative projects.
Traditional compatibility indicators show strong potential for mutual support, with complementary day masters (Water and Wood) and useful gods that enhance each other's strengths.
Core Energy Dynamics
Your connection works like a river nourishing a forest—Harry's Water element (Ren) provides emotional depth and intuition that helps Meghan's Wood element (Jia) grow and express her creative vision, while her Wood gives structure and direction to his flow.
Your combined elements create a dynamic ecosystem where Water (Harry) supports Wood (Meghan), and her Metal provides refinement and clarity to his emotional expression, fostering a balanced partnership.
Strengthening
Challenges
- +Emotional depth and nurturing
- +Shared vision for humanitarian work
- +Ability to transform challenges into growth
- !Balancing public and private life
- !Integrating different cultural backgrounds
- !Managing external pressures
Feng Shui Recommendations
Home
Place a small water feature (like a tabletop fountain) in your shared workspace to enhance Harry's Water element and support Meghan's Wood growth.
Colors
Timing & Advice
Their charts favour collaborative projects that blend creativity with humanitarian efforts — the pattern behind their post-Royal pivot into media, advocacy, and philanthropy.
The strength of this pairing lies in creating consistent rituals that honour both Harry's need for emotional depth and Meghan's drive for creative expression. Their Water-Wood dynamic thrives when neither element is suppressed.
How the Elements Pass Between Generations
Tracing Charles and Diana's elemental DNA through their sons' Four Pillars
Diana's Wood Heir — Nourished by Charles's Water
King Charles III + Princess Diana → Prince William
William carries his mother's exact Day Master — Yi Wood, Yin, Weak. He is Diana's elemental successor. But unlike Diana, whose Weak Wood was overwhelmed by Charles's triple Water, William's chart places that same Water energy as Direct Resource (正印) in his Year Pillar — the pillar of heritage and public identity. The energy that drowned his mother now gently nurtures the son.
William inherited Diana's core identity wholesale. They share the same elemental nature: sensitive, adaptive, quietly resilient Yin Wood. This is the deepest form of elemental inheritance — not just the same element, but the same polarity. He IS her Wood, continued.
Diana's Hurting Officer sat in her Hour Pillar — her inner self, her rebellion. William's Hurting Officer sits in his Month Pillar — his career and public life. The same anti-authority energy that drove Diana to challenge the Palace now drives William to modernise it from within. Same energy, different expression.
Charles's dominant Water element appears in William's chart as Direct Resource — the Ten God of nurturing support, mentorship, and institutional backing. The Water that flooded Diana instead protects and sustains William. This is the lineage transformation: overwhelming force becomes foundational support.
William was born in a Bing Wu (丙午) month — the Fire Horse. His Month Pillar carries the same energy as the year 2026. Fire is his Hurting Officer, the element of public expression and challenge to authority. Diana's warmth, her public magnetism, lives in William's career pillar as Fire.
William's chart resolves the central tension of his parents' marriage. Diana's Wood survives — not drowned, but supported. Charles's Water serves — not dominates, but nourishes. The son carries both parents' energy in a configuration that finally works. What was a Karmic Collision in their marriage becomes a functioning ecosystem in their child.
Charles's Water Heir — Carrying Diana's Rebellion
King Charles III + Princess Diana → Prince Harry
Harry inherited his father's element — Water — but amplified it. Charles is Gui (Yin Water): quiet, deep, contained. Harry is Ren (Yang Water): a river that breaks its banks, powerful and outward-flowing. He took his father's elemental identity and made it louder, more forceful, and less willing to be contained by institutional walls.
Harry's Ren Water is the Yang expression of Charles's Gui Water. Where Charles is a deep, still lake — patient, contained, waiting decades for his moment — Harry is a rushing river. Same element, opposite polarity. This is the classic father-son BaZi dynamic: the son expresses the father's energy in its mirror form.
Charles's exact Day Master stem — Gui — appears in Harry's Month Pillar as Rob Wealth. In BaZi, Rob Wealth represents competition, rivalry, and the drive to forge an independent identity from someone who shares your energy. Harry literally carries his father's identity as a competitive force in his career pillar. The public rift was written in the elements.
Diana's Wood element appears in Harry's Year Pillar as Eating God — creative expression, unconventional output, the desire to communicate truth. And Diana's defining Ten God — 7 Killings (oppressive authority) — reappears in Harry's Hour Pillar, his innermost self. He inherited her fight with institutional power and carried it into the next generation.
Unlike William, Harry's chart has no Fire stems in his main pillars. Diana's warmth and public charisma did not transfer elementally to Harry in the same way. Instead, Harry received her Wood (expression) and her 7 Killings (rebellion). The Fire — the warmth — stayed with William.
Harry's chart is a battleground between his parents' energies. His father's Water dominates (Ren + Gui + Zi), but his mother's Wood and rebellion are embedded in his Year and Hour Pillars — the pillars of public identity and inner self. He carries Charles's elemental power but Diana's emotional blueprint. The result: a man whose Water strength constantly pushes outward, driven by an inherited need to break free from the very institution his element was born to serve.