The Chart Said This Before the Weekend
A new publication. A 3,000-year-old system. And a Filipino man in Manila who writes things down.
I have been writing on Medium for twelve years.
4,482 posts. Most of them about grief, and dogs, and the strange business of being alive after your parents are gone. Some of them about AI. Some of them about Trump merchandise that paid for my father’s nursing home. A few of them about the gayest telenovela of all time that began with a drag shirt.
You know who I am.
So let me tell you what I am doing now.
I have been building two things quietly for the past few years.
The first is Vinci — an AI that reads what faces psychologically communicate. Not beauty. What the face is actually carrying. Trust. Warmth. Threat. The signal beneath the surface. My father was a photographer who believed photographs carry the soul. Vinci is the engine I built to prove he was right.
The second is PillarMind — a classical BaZi reading engine. BaZi is a Chinese system built on birth date and time. Eight characters. Four pillars. 3,000 years of documented use. I have been studying it seriously for years, running charts, testing the mechanics against real lives and real events.
Last month I started a new publication.
It is called The Notebook.
The Notebook applies classical BaZi to public figures whose decisions affect large numbers of people.
The method is simple. I read the chart before the events. I publish the date. Then the public record either confirms what the chart said or it does not.
The first entry was about Donald Trump.
I read his chart weeks before last weekend. The chart showed the 午午 Self-Punishment pattern — a structural condition where the greatest danger comes not from enemies but from the person themselves, operating at peak power with no internal mechanism to slow down. The chart said overconfidence at the moment of maximum elevation. The refusal to hear counsel that contradicts what you already believe.
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On Friday, he said he was considering winding down the war.
On Saturday night, from his Florida home, he threatened to obliterate Iran’s power plants.
Twenty-four hours. One hundred and eighty degrees.
The date is there. The reading is there. The public record is there.
I want to be clear about what this is and what it is not.
BaZi names structural conditions and tendencies. It does not predict outcomes. What the person does with those conditions is always theirs to decide. I am not saying the chart caused anything. I am saying I read the chart before the events, and what I read was confirmed by what happened after.
This is not astrology. This is not prophecy. This is a 3,000-year-old system applied with sourced journalism and published accountability.
The second entry goes deeper — it found a structural mechanic that neither of my reading engines surfaced on their own. The Direct Officer star fused with the Day Master at birth, at the career pillar, permanently. It explains not just this weekend but the entire pattern.
If you have been reading me on Medium, you know I do not waste your time.
This will not be different.
The Notebook is at pillarmind.substack.com.
Free to subscribe. The first two entries are already there. The Trump full 2026 chart — the complete structural reading, not just the event layer — is coming for paid subscribers.
Come with me.
I am still the same person who wrote about burying both parents and the world kept moving.
I am just reading charts now too.
— Napoleon
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