Fortune Guide
How are maiunse's ten readings actually calculated? A primer on each system.
maiunse brings Eastern destiny studies and Western astrology and numerology together in one place. Knowing how each reading is calculated makes every interpretation richer.
Today's Fortune
Today's Fortune contrasts the day's pillar — the stem and branch that change daily — with your own day master to read the day's flow: the kind of energy arriving today (its Ten God), how today's branch relates to yours, and the lucky element that fills what you lack.
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Four Pillars (Saju)
Saju (Four Pillars) writes your birth year, month, day, and hour as eight characters of heavenly stems and earthly branches, then reads your innate temperament and the flow of fortune through the balance of the Five Elements. maiunse builds the chart on a verified lunisolar calendar and unfolds it step by step: element strength including hidden stems, strong/weak day master and the useful element, Ten Gods distribution, and the great, yearly, and monthly luck cycles.
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Birth-Hour Sign
Reads the inner nature and life flow from your birth-hour animal (hour pillar), distinct from the outward year sign.
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Day Pillar (Ilju)
Reads your innate essence — the core of the Four Pillars — and the inner nature of your day branch from your day pillar (60 sexagenary cycle).
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Tojeong Secret
Tojeong Bigyeol is a Korean New Year oracle named after the Joseon scholar Tojeong Yi Ji-ham. Your lunar birthday and the year's stem-branch combine into a three-digit number that selects one of 144 hexagrams, read as the year's overall fortune, its flow, and the key attitude to hold.
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Name Analysis
Name Analysis reads the energy carried in the sound of a name. Korean names map each initial consonant to a Five Element — tracing the generating or clashing flow between syllables and the yin-yang balance of vowels — while Latin-alphabet names are read through Pythagorean numerology: Expression, Soul Urge, and Personality numbers.
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Compatibility
Compatibility places two Saju charts side by side to read the harmony of a bond. maiunse scores five aspects: the bond of the two day masters, the spouse palace (day branches) in harmony or clash, the zodiac-year relation, how each fills the other's lacking elements, and the balance of energy between the two charts.
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Chinese Zodiac
The East Asian zodiac reads the year's luck through the twelve animal signs of your birth year. The relation between your sign and the year's reigning branch — harmony or clash — and whether you are in a Samjae (three-calamity) period form the heart of the reading. maiunse assigns signs by Lunar New Year's Day rather than the spring solar term.
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Zodiac Compatibility
Weighs traditional relations like the three/six harmonies and clashes between two Chinese zodiac signs to show a compatibility score and reading.
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Feng Shui Directions
Traditional Eight Mansions feng shui: from your birth year and gender, it finds your Kua number and your four lucky directions and the one to avoid.
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Palmistry
Pick the shapes of your five palm lines (life, head, heart, fate, sun) and traditional palmistry reads your innate nature and fortune.
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Face Reading
Pick the shapes of your seven features (face, forehead, eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, ears) and traditional physiognomy reads your innate fortune.
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I Ching Trigram
Draws one of the eight I Ching trigrams from your birth date and today’s date to read today’s flow and advice. It refreshes at midnight each day.
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Yut Divination
A Korean folk divination that casts four yut sticks to read today’s luck as Do, Gae, Geol, Yut, or Mo.
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Nine Star Ki
Nine Star Ki is an East Asian astrology that sorts your birth year into nine stars (One White Water Star to Nine Purple Fire Star) to read your innate temperament and flow. Find your main star by your birth date and explore your personality, love, work, health, and this year's flow. The year boundary follows the Start of Spring (early February).
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Nine Star Match
Nine Star compatibility reads the match between two people by their main stars (the nine stars of Nine Star Ki) through the Five-Element cycles. Whether the stars' elements nourish each other (generating), share the same element (peer), or check each other (controlling) shapes the tone of the bond. Pick both main stars to explore love and work compatibility.
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Five-Element Face
Five-Element Face reading (五行形) is a traditional physiognomy that sorts your face shape into the five elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water) to read your innate temperament. Wood is a long slender face, Fire an inverted triangle, Earth a round-broad face, Metal an angular square, and Water a round plump face. Pick your face shape to explore your personality, love, work, and health tendencies.
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Five-Element Face Match
Five-Element Face compatibility reads the match between two people by their five-element face types (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water) through the generating and controlling cycles. Whether the elements nourish each other (generating), check each other (controlling), or are the same type shapes the tone of the bond. Pick both face types to explore love and work compatibility.
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Decans
A decan is a 10° subdivision of each zodiac sign (30°) in Western astrology, dividing every sign into three. Even within the same sign, your decan carries a different sub-ruler (traditional triplicity), giving subtly different traits. Find your decan and its sub-ruler by your birth date and explore your personality, love, and work tendencies in finer detail.
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Decan Compatibility
Decan compatibility reads the match between two people by their signs and decans (the 10° subdivisions that split each sign into three). On top of sign aspect and elemental relationship, it factors in each decan's sub-ruler (traditional triplicity) resonance, so even couples of the same signs get subtly different results by decan. Pick both signs and decans for a finer compatibility reading.
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Horoscope
The horoscope reads innate disposition from the zodiac sign the Sun occupied on your birthday — the most popular form of Western astrology. Four elements (fire, earth, air, water), three qualities (cardinal, fixed, mutable), and a ruling planet shape each sign's character.
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Sign Compatibility
Shows a compatibility score and reading from the angular distance (aspect) and element affinity of two Western zodiac signs.
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Tarot
Tarot draws insight from the symbols of the 22 Major Arcana. Cards are shuffled and drawn at random, with upright and reversed orientations carrying different meanings. maiunse offers a single Card of the Day or a three-card Past·Present·Future spread.
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Tarot Birth Card
Reduces your birth date to a single Major Arcana, revealing the life card that runs through your whole life and its meaning.
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Yes/No Tarot
A tarot oracle: hold a question in mind, draw a card, and it answers simply — yes, no, or maybe.
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Rune of the Day
A rune reading that draws one of the 24 Norse Elder Futhark runes to read today’s guidance and flow.
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Numerology
Numerology, in the Pythagorean tradition, reduces the digits of your birth date to reveal the patterns of destiny: the Life Path number for your life's overall direction, the Birthday number for innate talent, and the Personal Year number for this year's place in the nine-year cycle.
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Birthstone & Flower
Discover the birthstone and birth flower of your birth month, along with a fortune for the month.
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Celtic Tree Sign
Druid tree astrology that assigns your birthday to one of 13 Celtic trees, reading your innate nature, love, and aptitude through the tree that mirrors you.
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Celtic Tree Match
Compatibility through the affinity of the four elements (fire, earth, air, water) assigned to two Celtic trees, with a score and reading of how well the trees go together.
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MBTI Personality
Explore your tendencies, love and work, and this year’s fortune across the 16 MBTI personality types.
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Enneagram
The Enneagram is a personality system that sorts people into nine types. Pick your type to explore your personality, strengths, love, work, and growth points, and gain a clue to understanding yourself more deeply.
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Enneagram Compatibility
Enneagram Compatibility compares two people’s Enneagram types to read their personality match and the texture of their bond. Using the relationships between types — same type, connecting line, same center, wing — it playfully reads how well you fit.
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MBTI Compatibility
Compares two people’s MBTI types to show a compatibility score and a reading of the relationship.
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Blood Type Personality
Personality, love, work, and this year’s fortune read from your A, B, O, or AB blood type.
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Blood Type Match
Pick two blood types (A, B, O, AB) and we read your personality compatibility and relationship tips with a score.
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Sasang Constitution
Diagnoses your Sasang constitution among the four types with five quick questions, plus a health and food guide.
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Color Personality
Your personality, love style, and today’s vibe read from your favorite color.
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Personal Color
Personal Color sorts the color families that suit your natural skin, hair, and eye tone into four seasons (Spring Warm, Summer Cool, Autumn Warm, Winter Cool). Find your tone with a few simple questions and get tips on the colors, style, and makeup that suit you.
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Animal Face Test
The Animal Face Test is a fun way to see which animal your impression and vibe resemble. Find your type among six — puppy, cat, rabbit, fox, bear, deer — and discover your charm, image, and style.
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Birth Weekday
Your inborn nature, this year’s fortune, and lucky points read from the weekday you were born on.
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Biorhythm
Charts your physical, emotional, and intellectual cycles from your birth date to read today’s condition.
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Lucky Numbers
Draws your lucky numbers and a word for the day, refreshed daily from your birth date and today’s date.
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Name Compatibility
A traditional name-matching game that interleaves the strokes of two names to produce a compatibility score.
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Dream Reading
Dream interpretation reads the symbols of last night's dream through both traditional dream lore and a modern psychological lens. The same dream can mean different things depending on feeling and context, so treat readings as a reference against your own situation.
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FAQ
Is maiunse free?
Yes. Every reading is free, and no sign-up is required.
Is my birth date stored?
Not on any server. All calculation happens inside your browser, and the birthday remembered for the Today's Flow shortcut is kept only in your own device's browser storage.
Can I enter a lunar or leap-month birthday?
Yes. Choose Lunar in the calendar selector; if that year and month contain a leap month, a leap-month checkbox appears. Dates are converted with an accurate lunisolar calendar internally.
Can I get a Saju reading without my birth time?
Yes. Select "Time unknown" and the chart is read from three pillars (year, month, day). Most analyses — day master, element balance, and more — are still provided.
How is Saju different from the horoscope?
Saju is Eastern destiny study reading the full stem-branch chart of your birth date and time and its element balance; the horoscope is Western astrology reading disposition from the Sun's position alone. Different systems, complementary pleasures.
How accurate are the readings?
Chart calculation — calendar conversion, solar terms, stem-branches — uses verified astronomical data. The interpretations, however, are reference and entertainment content based on traditional theory; keep important decisions your own.
Can I use it in different languages?
Yes. maiunse supports six languages—Korean, English, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese. Switch from the language selector at the top and every reading is served in that language.
Are there fortunes that change every day?
Yes. Today's Fortune, the daily almanac, your sign's daily horoscope, the tarot Card of the Day and Lucky Numbers refresh each day by date, so a new result appears after midnight.
Can I save or share my results?
On most result screens you can create a share card (PNG) with the “Save Image” button, and your birth date and choices are kept in the URL, so the same result reopens from the link alone.
How do I use the dream dictionary?
Type the dream you are curious about (e.g., snake, pig, teeth) into the search box at the top of the Dreams page, or pick a category to browse related readings. Over 1,000 dream interpretations are offered in six languages.
What kinds of fortunes can I check?
From traditional readings like Saju, Tojeong, and compatibility to horoscopes, tarot, and numerology, plus blood type, MBTI, palmistry, and dream interpretation — 35 fortunes in one place.
Do I need to sign up or log in?
No. You can use every feature for free without signing up or logging in. What you enter is never sent to a server and is used only within your browser.
What if I get a bad result?
A fortune is entertainment for reflecting on the flow, not a fixed fate. Take an unfavorable result as a sign to be careful — your mindset and effort can always shift the current.
What kinds of compatibility can I check?
Besides Saju compatibility, you can look at the bond between two people in many ways: Chinese zodiac, star sign, MBTI, name, blood type, and Celtic tree compatibility.
Does it work well on a phone?
Yes. You can use it right in a mobile browser with no app to install, and the layout is optimized for the screen. Add it to your home screen to open it as fast as an app.