Your Daily Fortune Radar: How the Six Numbers Are Actually Calculated
A hexagon with six spikes looks like decoration. On Bokki's home screen it is arithmetic — the same ten-god relation that writes your daily reading also draws its shape.
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The short answer
Every day, Bokki's home screen shows a hexagon radar with six points — overall, love, money, career, health, study — each a number from 45 to 98. It looks like a generic "today's fortune" widget, the kind rival apps fill with arbitrary numbers. It isn't one. Every point traces back to a single fact about your chart: where today's day-pillar element sits relative to your day master on the ten-god wheel (the same wheel that names companions, output, wealth, officer and resource elsewhere on your chart), whether that element happens to be one your chart favours, and whether this year's element is currently working for or against you. Change the day, and the shape changes with it — not because of noise, but because the underlying relation actually changed.
The arithmetic — a base score, then six directions
The overall score starts from a fixed base per ten-god relation: 84 if today nourishes your day master (resource, 印星), 78 if it matches it (companion, 比劫), 76 if it's what your day master produces (wealth, 財星), 72 if it's what your day master creates outward (output, 食傷), and 66 if it's what challenges your day master (officer, 官星) — officer days score lowest because they cost effort even when they build standing. A ±4 point swing is added depending on whether today's element sits in your favourable list, and a further ±2 to ±4 tail depending on your chart's strength and whether this year's element favours you. The five per-topic axes start from that same base and shift again, this time by up to ±6 points, following a small per-topic table: money rises on wealth or output days and falls on companion or officer days; career rises on officer, output or wealth days; study rises on resource, officer or output days and falls on wealth days (the classical wealth-attacks-resource clash); health rises on resource or companion days and falls on wealth or officer days; love rises gently on output or resource days and stays neutral otherwise. Every number is clamped between 45 and 98 so the hexagon never collapses to a point or a wall.
Worked example — the same chart, two different days
Take the chart Bokki's articles on 대운 and 십신 already use: born 15 May 1990 at 14:30 in Seoul, a Metal day master reading weak, with favourable elements Water, Earth, Metal in that order. On 1 September 2026 the day pillar's element is Earth — Earth generates Metal, so today is a resource (印星) day, the single best relation on the base table, and Earth also happens to be this chart's favourable element. The radar reads overall 85, love 91, money 85, career 85, health 90, study 91 — a wide, even hexagon. Eight days later, on 9 September 2026, the day pillar's element is Fire — Fire controls Metal, an officer (官星) day, the lowest base relation, and Fire is specifically the element this chart's engine marks unfavourable. The same person, same chart, same code: overall 59, love 59, money 53, career 65, health 52, study 65 — a visibly smaller, unevenly pinched hexagon, money and health pulled in hardest because those two axes specifically penalise officer days. Nothing about the person changed; only which element today's pillar carries did.
What this number is not
Until 1 August 2026, the five per-topic axes were not calculated this way at all — they came from a seeded random number (a hash of the birthday, the date and the topic name, taken modulo 37 and shifted), meaning the hexagon's shape was decoration layered on top of a real overall score, not a second calculation. That noise could occasionally hand the highest spike to a topic the accompanying written reason had just called unfavourable — a number and a sentence on the same screen quietly disagreeing. Bokki's own source comments call that out directly and the fix ties every axis to the same ten-god signal the written reason already uses, so the two can no longer contradict each other. One honest limit remains even after the fix: the exact base values (84, 78, 76, 72, 66) and the size of each adjustment are Bokki's own display convention, not a classical numerical canon — the code's own comment says so. What is grounded in tradition is the direction (which relation helps which life area); how many points that direction is worth is a product choice, not an ancient formula, and Bokki does not claim otherwise. The score also never looks at anyone besides you — it is not a compatibility number, not a probability, and not a verdict on your day (D-003).
Closing note — one signal, six axes, checked against two real days
In short: the daily radar is not a mood board. A single fact — how today's day-pillar element relates to your day master on the ten-god wheel — sets a base score, then bends six ways for six life areas through a small, documented table, with your chart's own favourable element and this year's flow adding a final nudge. The same Seoul-born chart scored a wide 85-91 hexagon on a resource day and a pinched 52-65 hexagon on an officer day just eight days apart, using nothing but the calendar and the chart itself. Before August 2026 the per-topic shape was seeded noise sitting next to a real score; now the shape and the sentence beneath it are drawn from the same number.