Greetings master Joey Yap! Have read your first book on Bazi analysis recently- got my interest aroused. Searched through your Q + A archives...Could not find any similar question in the Search questions section either. My question is- I was a caesarean birth, so how do I determine my actual birth date and time? Now I know some women do a caesarian for "other reasons" even though they do not have birth complications, but in my case it was due to birth complications. My birth details- 1910, Sept 20, 1958 I went to a talk once by someone who uses a combination of the purple star system together with his own self-devised methods and he said that with a caesarean birth the birthdate cannot be known so it has to be "reconstructed" backwards by looking in detail on how the person's life has turned out. What is your opinion? Thanks and keep up your good work, John Yip

Hi John,

Whether it's ceasarean or natural birthdate - we would use the actual date and time you came into this world (meaning your first breadth) as the correct date to plot your BaZi.

Warm Regards, JY