MERIDIAN HOUSE

Your sky tells your story.

Your birth date, time, and location fix a sky that will not occur again. We need precise details; everything in your document is computed from them.

One

Who this is for

The name on the cover is set exactly as you write it here.

We write to you twice: once to confirm your birth data, once to send the document. Nothing else.

Two

The facts of your birth

Local clock time and local calendar date, as they were in the room — not converted to anything. We resolve the time zone, including whatever daylight saving rule was in force that year.

Enter coordinates manually instead

Western hemisphere longitudes are negative. A sign error here moves you to another continent and every value in the report will be confidently wrong.

Three

Which commission

The Record describes. The Commission also counsels — where to live, what to heal, how you make things, how you love.

Four

Annexes

Each is a further page, woven into the reading rather than bolted on. Three of the five are computed from the birth data you have already given.

Five

Two last things

Why we ask that first question. It affects exactly one calculation: the direction the BaZi luck pillars run. In that system the sequence is read forward or backward depending on the birth year's polarity paired with recorded sex. It changes nothing else in the document, and it is not a question about who you are. If it does not apply cleanly to you, choose either and tell us in the notes — we will say so in the colophon.

The Commission
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