No random numbers are involved. Your Gregorian birth date is first cast into the Four Pillars: the year pillar turns over at Lichun rather than New Year, the month pillar follows the solar terms with the Five Tigers rule, the day pillar counts from a Jia-Xu anchor on 1 January 1900, and the hour pillar follows the Five Rats rule, with hours from 23:00 belonging to the next day.
Each of the six areas maps to a group of Ten Gods — career reads Officer and Killings, wealth reads the Wealth star, love reads Wealth for a male chart and Officer for a female one, health reads the Resource star, people reads Friend and Rob Wealth, mind reads the Output stars. The score comes from how tomorrow's day stem, day branch and monthly command generate or control that element, adjusted by how well stocked that element is in your own chart, by the harmony or clash between tomorrow's branch and your day branch, and by whether your day master is strong enough to carry wealth and office.
Adding a name adds a layer. Chinese characters are cast into the Five Grids — Heaven, Personality, Earth, Outer and Total — counted in Kangxi strokes; kana use the stroke table from Japanese name reading; Latin letters use Pythagorean numerology. The name meets the chart at one question: does the name's governing element supply what the chart is short of? A name is a constant while days are variables, so its weight is deliberately kept below that of the day.
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