First Time on Baize: Where to Start

A chart, and a dialogue you can ask at any time. Both are open the moment you log in. The chart needs one thing only — a birth time — and that is the single input the whole system requires from you. Beyond it, you do not have to answer anything about yourself first.

The order from here: look at the chart, ask one question, read a report if you want more depth, tell Baize what actually happened, then come back later and compare. Every step works on its own. Walked through in sequence, you end up holding more than any single one of them gives you.

Your chart and its "configuration" are generated as soon as you log in. It lays out what each position leans toward, in a fixed coordinate system that does not shift with your mood today. You do not have to understand it on the first pass — it is enough to notice which few panels stand out.

While you are there, open "Fortune Trend" at the top of the Hero's Journey page: a panorama drawn from your luck cycles, spanning the next five years and switching to recent months. See it first so you have an expectation; it only has something to compare against once you come back later. How to read that axis is covered in Working in a Trough: The Hidden Dragon.

Wherever a panel of your chart does not make sense, ask the dialogue directly — it answers from your chart, not from a generic FAQ. These three can be pasted as they are:

• Which panel of my chart is the most prominent?
• Which panel do I most often overlook?
• Is there a part of this chart I have been misreading all along?

One thing worth knowing early: an event that happened gets you further than a feeling. "I got stuck on the same thing for the third time" returns something far more specific than "I have been feeling off lately". Do not drop the feeling — just put one concrete event next to it: when, with whom, what you did, how it turned out.

The dialogue answers single questions. A report lays the whole chart out at once, as a document you can reread and export. Which one to pick depends on the part you want:

• You want the whole picture first: the Full Report reads from "who you are" through career, wealth and relationships — the full chart laid out, then one panel in depth.
• You are stuck on career or a transition: the career-direction and talent reports read which kind of work you can keep doing without it collapsing, with rhythm and priorities.
• You keep landing in the same situation: the decision-blind-spot report reads the position that walks you back down the same road every time — usually not a matter of willpower.
• You want to understand one specific person: the relationship reading sets two people's patterns of interaction side by side.
• You want someone as a reference point: the benchmark reading gives you a differential analysis — why their path only holds for them, and which piece you are missing.

A report is generated once, then readable repeatedly and exportable.

Some time later, come back to the dialogue and describe what actually happened. These are ready to copy:

• "Over this stretch I ran into [something] — looking back, which panel of my chart does it sit on?"
• "I assumed [something], but what actually happened was [this]."

Two buttons sit beside any answer: one keeps the single line you most want to remember into "my lines", where you can find it again; the save button stores the whole exchange as one review note. Under the input box there is a daily-review toggle — switch it on and this reply is written as a growth review that closes with one line worth keeping. All three are free, and available as soon as you log in.

How to phrase it, how to store it, and how often to come back — the full procedure is in Years of Journaling, Still the Same.

Once a few rounds have accumulated, look at two things.

First, go back to the "Fortune Trend" you saw at the start: how much of what actually rose and fell lines up with the higher and lower bands it marked. Where it does not line up is more worth looking at — that part is usually your own choices, not the rhythm.

Then open the Hero's Journey panel and tap "Stage Progress". It gathers this stretch of dialogue into one summary — how much of the structure you read at the start matches what actually happened since. The daily reviews you ticked, the lines you kept and the exchanges you saved all fold into it, so the more you did earlier, the more that page has to show.

"Fortune Trend", "Stage Progress" and "Hero's Journey" are all free — available as soon as you log in. To unfold what comes next into one picture, write a goal into the Hero's Journey page and get an action timeline aligned with your chart (charged per use, optional).

The five steps above all happen inside the browser. This section is the operational layer — turning that routine into something you can open without thinking. It does not change how you read the chart; it decides whether you actually come back a second time.

1. Phone: put it on your home screen (do this first)

Right now, using it once probably means scrolling back through a WeChat group, digging through chat history, or searching for the address again. Add it to the home screen and it behaves like an app: tap the icon, it opens full-screen, and WeChat is not in the way.

iPhone (open this site in Safari): tap the Share icon at the bottom of the screen (a box with an arrow pointing up, □↑) → scroll down the sheet and choose "Add to Home Screen" → "Add" at the top right.

Android (open in Chrome): tap ⋮ at the top right → choose "Add to Home screen" or "Install app" → confirm.

If this page opened inside WeChat: tap ⋯ at the top right → "Open in Browser", wait for the system browser to come up, then follow the steps above. WeChat does not allow adding to the home screen directly — that is WeChat's own restriction, not a problem with this site.

After that, a Baize icon sits on your home screen. Tapping it comes straight here, with no WeChat and no searching in between.

Desktop: a bookmark is enough. In Chrome / Edge you can also click the install icon at the right of the address bar to get a standalone window; if you would rather not install, Ctrl+D (⌘+D on Mac) gets you almost the same thing.

2. Moving between pages, on phone and desktop

Once you are signed in, there is a ☰ at the top left — the same one on phone and desktop. Tap it and a menu slides out, with six items:

• Chat — where you type or speak your questions. This is where you will spend most of your time.
• Chart archive — your chart, plus everything generated from it.
• Reports — the free full configuration lives here, along with the narrower sections (career, mood, relationships, how the current year is shaped) which can each be opened on their own.
• Hero's Journey — the Fortune Trend, Stage Progress, and turning a goal into a timeline.
• Relationships — where you bring a specific person into the picture.
• Method and knowledge base — the way in to the articles you are reading now.

On a phone the menu slides in from the left and you tap an item to go there; on a desktop it is identical, except the menu stays parked on the left. The chat is for talking things through, the reports are for reading in full, and each keeps its own progress — moving back and forth loses nothing.

3. By voice: speech-to-text

Often the thing you want to ask comes out faster when you say it — lying down, walking, or when the word you need will not come.

There is a microphone icon to the right of the chat input box. Tap it once to start speaking; the icon turns into a square (a stop button) and it keeps listening while you talk. Tap it again to stop. The recognised text drops into the input box, and you can edit it before sending — delete a word it misheard, add a sentence, or clear the whole thing and start over, exactly as if you had typed it. When it reads right, send it.

Two conditions: allow the microphone when the browser asks, and note that this currently works on Android Chrome and desktop Chrome / Edge.

iPhone is a separate case. Voice input on iPhone needs Safari, with Siri and Dictation switched on in system settings — and there is one more limit: if you added this site to your home screen and open it from that icon, voice input will not work at all. That is an iOS restriction on home-screen web apps, and not something this site can work around. In that situation, just type; the microphone button will be greyed out or will tell you it is unsupported.

4. By ear: have Baize read the answer out

Under every reply there is a row of small buttons, and one of them is "Read aloud". Tap it and Baize speaks the whole answer; while it is speaking, the same button becomes "Stop reading", and tapping it again stops. It works on both phone and desktop — useful while driving, doing chores, or when your eyes are tired.

Two more buttons sit in that row: "Save the line" keeps the single sentence you most want to remember in "My lines", ready to look back at; the bookmark button saves the whole reply as a record. Both are free.

The voice itself is adjustable. There are several presets (soft female, clear female, calm male, or the system default), plus specific voices (Xiaoxiao, Xiaoyi, Xiaohan, Yunxi, Yunyang, HsiaoChen for Traditional Chinese, and Jenny for English), and a speed choice of slightly slow, normal, or slightly fast. Each one has a "Preview" button so you can hear a line before committing. If you like listening every time, switch on "Read replies aloud automatically" and each answer is spoken without your tapping anything.

One common trap: inside WeChat the reading aloud often produces no sound. That is a limitation of WeChat's built-in browser. Tap ⋯ at the top right, choose "Open in Browser", and it works normally.

5. Breathing: somewhere to stop when you are stuck

On the chat page and the report page, there is a small Baize figure in the bottom right corner (smaller on a phone, still bottom right; if you do not want it sitting there, "minimise" it into a small button labelled "Baize" and open it again when you want it).

Tap the figure once and a small menu appears above its head, with "Breathe with me" and "Vault". Choose "Breathe with me" and a card appears in the middle of the screen: the circle expands as you breathe in and contracts as you breathe out, the card names the current phase (inhale, hold, exhale), and the small dots underneath count the rounds you have finished.

One round takes a few minutes, and you simply follow along — nothing to type in, and nothing to pay. There are seven rhythms to switch between (4-7-8, 4-2-6, 5-0-7, 4-0-8, 4-4-6, resonance, box), differing only in how many seconds go to inhale, hold and exhale; pick whichever feels comfortable. To stop, tap the close button on the card or tap anywhere outside it.

Sometimes Baize will also offer a "Breathe with me" button itself in a speech bubble — usually when it is suggesting you take a break. It is not a treatment; it is a way to sit down and slow the breath when emotion has risen or your head will not turn over. If sleep or mood problems keep troubling you, seeing a doctor is still the right move.

This page is for cultural study and self-reflection. It is not a predictive promise, nor medical, legal, investment or career advice.

I know nothing about Chinese astrology — can I still use this?
Yes, and you do not have to learn it first. Here the chart is something to check against, not something to read. You only need to notice which few panels stand out; the dialogue handles the rest. Every term that appears is explained in one sentence the first time it shows up.

Do I have to follow this order?
No. Looking at the chart, asking, and coming back to compare each work on their own. This is an order, not a rule — you can register, glance at the chart once, and come back when you actually have something to ask.

Which parts cost money?
The chart, the dialogue with Baize, "Fortune Trend", "Stage Progress" and "Hero's Journey" are all free once you log in. Charged per use: the written reports, and "Goal Planning", which unfolds a goal into an action timeline.

So many reports — which one do I buy first?
Depends on the part you want now: the Full Report for the whole picture, career and talent reports if you are stuck on work, the decision-blind-spot report if you keep landing in the same situation. If you are unsure, ask one question in the dialogue first — it answers from your chart — then decide.

How long before "Stage Progress" has anything to show?
It gathers a stretch of dialogue into one summary, so it takes a few rounds to take shape. In practice most people come back every so often to describe what happened, and tap it after a few of those.

Can I use voice input on a phone? How do I add this to my home screen?
Voice: there is a microphone to the right of the chat input — tap once to start, tap again to stop, and the recognised text lands in the input box where you can edit it before sending. It currently works on Android Chrome and desktop Chrome / Edge. On iPhone it needs Safari with Siri and Dictation switched on in system settings, and it does not work when the site is opened from the home-screen icon. Home screen: on iPhone, in Safari tap the Share icon at the bottom (□↑) → "Add to Home Screen"; on Android, in Chrome tap ⋮ at the top right → "Add to Home screen / Install app". If the page opened inside WeChat, tap ⋯ → "Open in Browser" first, then do that step.

"Read aloud" produces no sound — what now?
Most often it is WeChat's built-in browser. Tap ⋯ at the top right → "Open in Browser", then tap Read aloud again in Safari or Chrome and it will speak. It is also worth checking that the phone is not on silent and the volume is turned up.

What is the Baize figure in the bottom corner? Can I turn it off?
That is the Baize companion. Tap it and a menu appears; choose "Breathe with me" for a guided inhale–hold–exhale session (seven rhythms to switch between, nothing to type in, nothing to pay), or "Vault". If you do not want it sitting there, minimise it into a small button labelled "Baize" and open it again whenever you want it.