🌱 Learn Saju — Beginner
Lessons 1–10 · Getting on speaking terms with Saju — what the eight characters are, where they came from, and how to pull up your own chart and read it.
- Lesson 1 · What the Four Pillars actually areThe “eight characters” behind the Korean phrase for fate — four pillars, eight characters
- Lesson 2 · Yin and yang — reading the world in twoThe first piece of grammar, already drawn on the Korean flag
- Lesson 3 · The Five Elements — reading the world in fiveYou have been living an Elements calendar every week of your life
- Lesson 4 · The generating cycle — what bears and raises whatWood bears fire, fire bears earth — the wisdom of the circle
- Lesson 5 · The controlling cycle — what governs and checks whatDo the gardener’s shears harm the tree, or complete it?
- Lesson 6 · The Heavenly Stems — the ten characters of the skyWhere the Korean word for the powerful party in a contract comes from
- Lesson 7 · The Earthly Branches — twelve characters and twelve animalsWhy isn’t the cat in the zodiac?
- Lesson 8 · The perpetual calendar — the tool that pulls your chartRoot, shoot, flower, fruit — the order in which to read four pillars
- Lesson 9 · The Day Master — who is the protagonist of this chart?The question one reformer changed a thousand years ago: “what day were you born?”
- Lesson 10 · First reading practice — drawing your elemental mapThe beginner’s final exam: describe your chart in three sentences