The Ten Gods (十神, Shi Shen) are BaZi astrology's system for describing how each of the other seven stems in your Four Pillars chart relates to your own Day Master -- the classical vocabulary for reading personality, relationships, and life themes from the chart.
Every BaZi chart has four pillars (Year, Month, Day, Hour), each built from a Heavenly Stem and an Earthly Branch. The stem of your Day pillar -- called the Day Master (日主) -- represents you, specifically, and every other stem in the chart is read relative to it, based on the Five Element production/control cycle (Wood feeds Fire, Fire feeds Earth, and so on) and whether the stems share the same polarity (yin/yang).
That relationship is classified into 10 named roles, grouped in yin/yang pairs: Friend and Rob Wealth (peer-level, same element), Eating God and Hurting Officer (what your Day Master produces), Direct Wealth and Indirect Wealth (what your Day Master controls), Direct Officer and Seven Killings (what controls your Day Master), and Direct Resource and Indirect Resource (what produces your Day Master). Each carries its own thematic reading -- Direct Officer, for instance, is classically tied to structure, authority, and discipline, while Eating God leans toward creativity and ease.
Rather than reading each stem in isolation, a BaZi interpretation looks at which Ten Gods appear where in the chart, how many times, and in what combination -- a chart heavy in Wealth stars reads differently from one heavy in Officer stars, even if both technically contain "good" elements. This is the mechanism behind the career/wealth/relationship predictions AstroKarmas generates from your BaZi chart.
The Ten Gods only make sense relative to a specific Day Master, which is why they're always computed per-person rather than looked up from a fixed table the way, say, a zodiac animal is.
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