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How AI-powered Chinese astrology platform Tian Qi aims to shake up the industry

Singapore-based astrologer Sean Chan trained Tian Qi on over 9,000 of his own consultations. But not all his peers are so keen on using AI

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Singapore-based astrology Sean Chan uses his AI-powered Chinese metaphysics reading platform Tian Qi. Photo: courtesy of Sean Chan
Charmaine Yu
If you want to seek enlightenment, you can consult Gabi, a robot monk in a South Korean temple. If you want to meditate, download an app and let a computerised voice guide you towards inner peace. Now, if you want to analyse your Chinese astrology to check your financial prospects, you can look towards AI to give you a reading.

This is what Singapore-based astrologer Sean Chan has been working on: Tian Qi, an AI-powered Chinese metaphysics reading platform.

Chan “vibe-coded” his platform – he builds code by feeding instructions into AI software – in under two months earlier this year. Within two months of launching, the platform registered more than 12,000 users.

It is a format familiar to all astrology lovers. Punch in your birth date and time and you can have your chart analysed by this machine mystic. But unlike a typical AI-powered app that crawls the internet for information, Chan says he trained his platform directly on his own archives – more than 9,000 written consultations and analyses of his past clients.

Using Tian Qi

Trying out Tian Qi for myself, I input my birth date, time, gender and birthplace into the website. Within milliseconds, I was informed that my core identity, which was represented as a “Day Master”, belonged to Yin Earth. Though I did not know what it meant, the various charts and numbers that exploded on my screen further piqued my curiosity.

A screenshot from Tian Qi, where users input their birth details to receive a chart reading. Photo: Sean Chan
A screenshot from Tian Qi, where users input their birth details to receive a chart reading. Photo: Sean Chan
Chan’s website also listed out my five-element distribution, which represents my personality traits – my dominant elements are earth and wood – and 10 Gods distribution, which refers to how the cosmic archetypes are spread across my life.
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