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DAY PILLAR · 13 OF 60
丙子

Byeong-Ja day pillar

Yang Fire over the Rat병자일주 · BaZi: Bing Zi

The sun reflected on a winter lake. A bright, principled and graceful nature that holds passion and restraint together.

The picture

Byeong-Ja is sunlight on still water. The Rat’s Water controls Yang Fire, so the sun here is tempered: bright, and held to a standard. This pillar is fair-minded, well mannered and conscious of its reputation. Under the composed surface, fire and water pull against each other. Byeong-Ja often feels more anxious than it looks.

What the pillar is made of

PartIn Byeong-Ja
Day Master丙 Byeong, Yang Fire
Day branch子 Ja, the Rat
Hidden stems癸 Gye: Direct Officer
Life stageConception 胎
Void branches申 Sin (Monkey), 酉 Yu (Rooster)
Stars it carriesBokseong

The Day Master sits on the element that controls it, in the opposite polarity. Discipline and a sense of duty are built in. In a female chart tradition reads the husband star sitting in the spouse palace as a favourable sign for marriage.

These are the facts every Byeong-Ja chart shares, whatever the other three pillars hold. They are taken from the same engine that calculates your chart.

Strengths

  • A sense of honour and fairness.
  • Brightness without excess.
  • Grace in public.

What to watch

  • Inner tension.
  • Concern for appearances.
  • Energy that comes and goes.

In relationships

Byeong-Ja values a partner it can be proud of and behaves well in relationships. It needs someone with whom it can stop performing.

At work

Public roles, law, education, broadcasting and large organisations.

A day pillar is one of four. Two people born on a Byeong-Ja day in different months and hours have different charts: the season decides how strong the Day Master is, and the other pillars add their own ten gods and interactions. Read this page as the starting point, then look at the whole chart.

Questions people ask

What does the Byeong-Ja day pillar mean?
Byeong-Ja (丙子) is Yang Fire over the Rat: a bright, principled and graceful nature that holds passion and restraint together.
How do I know if Byeong-Ja is my day pillar?
The day pillar comes from a sixty-day cycle and from true solar time at your birthplace, so it cannot be worked out from your birth year or zodiac animal. Calculate your chart: if the Day column shows 丙子, this is your pillar.
What is 丙子 called in Chinese BaZi?
Bing Zi. It is the same pillar. Korean Saju reads the characters as Byeong-Ja and calls it Byeongja ilju (병자일주); BaZi sources write Bing Zi in pinyin.
Which life stage and void branches go with Byeong-Ja?
On its own seat the Day Master is at the Conception stage (胎). New life forming: potential, plans, things not yet visible. The void branches for this pillar are 申 Sin (Monkey) and 酉 Yu (Rooster). The strength of the whole chart depends mostly on the birth month, not on this stage alone.
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