Connector

Saju, computed properly — inside your assistant

People are already asking ChatGPT for saju readings by pasting a prompt. The prose comes out fine; the chart underneath is usually wrong, because a language model is guessing at an almanac. This connector gives your assistant the actual calculation instead.

It is a remote MCP server. Free, no API key, no account, no personal data stored — birth details are computed in the request and not written anywhere.

Endpoint

https://www.ioreum.com/api/mcp

Add it as a custom connector (ChatGPT → Settings → Connectors, or Claude → Settings → Connectors) and paste that URL. It speaks Streamable HTTP and needs no authentication.

What it does

calculate_saju

The four pillars from a birth date, optional time, timezone and longitude — plus the Day Master, the Five-Element counts and the 60-gapja day character.

luck_pillars

The ten-year luck pillars (대운 daeun / 大運 da yun): direction, starting age, and eight pillars with the age each opens. The day count behind the starting age is returned so you can check it.

check_zodiac_year

Which zodiac animal a birth date really belongs to — reckoned from ipchun (立春, around 4 February), not 1 January and not Lunar New Year. January births are routinely mislabelled by a whole animal.

day_master_character

Any of the sixty day pillars as a reference: colour-and-animal name, a one-line epithet, and the Day Master element with its traditional nature image.

Why the numbers differ from other calculators

Three boundaries are where most tools quietly go wrong, and all three are handled here: the solar-term (jeolgi) change that moves the year and month pillars to the minute; true solar time, so a birth in New York is corrected by longitude and the equation of time rather than read off the wall clock; and the late-night hour convention, where the day pillar turns at 23:00 rather than midnight. Every one of these is locked by golden tests. The methodology page walks through a full worked chart.

What it will not do

It returns calculated facts, not a reading. There is no written interpretation, no compatibility score and no useful-god (yongsin) analysis in these tools — that is the interpretive layer, and it is the paid product. And a claim we refuse to make anywhere: no chart decides your life. Treat all of it as reference and entertainment.

Or just read your own chart

Pillars, Day Master, element balance — free, no account.

Draw my chart — free