What does the Byeong-O day pillar mean?

Byeong-O (丙午) is Yang Fire over the Horse: the strongest fire of the sixty: passionate, brave, dominant and hot-tempered.

How do I know if Byeong-O 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 丙午, this is your pillar.

What is 丙午 called in Chinese BaZi?

Bing Wu. It is the same pillar. Korean Saju reads the characters as Byeong-O and calls it Byeongo ilju (병오일주); BaZi sources write Bing Wu in pinyin.

Which life stage and void branches go with Byeong-O?

On its own seat the Day Master is at the Peak stage (帝旺). The emperor’s height: maximum strength. Powerful, sometimes overbearing; the phase before decline. The void branches for this pillar are 寅 In (Tiger) and 卯 Myo (Rabbit). The strength of the whole chart depends mostly on the birth month, not on this stage alone.

丙午 Byeong-O day pillar (Yang Fire Horse): meaning in Saju

The picture

Byeong-O is fire on fire at the top of the year. The Horse is Yang Fire’s Yang Blade, the point of maximum strength. This pillar is bright, courageous and competitive, and it fills whatever space it enters. It does nothing by halves. The heat that inspires people can also scorch them. The Horse’s main stem is the smaller fire beside the sun, a rival in its own house, so Byeong-O is used to competing and tends to measure itself against others.

What the pillar is made of

Part	In Byeong-O
Day Master	丙 Byeong, Yang Fire
Day branch	午 O, the Horse
Hidden stems	己 Gi: Hurting Officer丁 Jeong: Rob Wealth (main)
Life stage	Peak 帝旺
Void branches	寅 In (Tiger), 卯 Myo (Rabbit)
Stars it carries	Yang Blade, Tanghwa, Hyeonchim

The Day Master sits on its own element in the other polarity, the strongest root there is. It gives great self-confidence and a competitive edge. Tradition advises care with shared money and with pride inside a marriage.

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

Strengths

Energy that seems to have no end.
Courage in open contest.
Leadership by force of presence.

What to watch

A temper that flares fast and hot.
Dominating people who would have followed anyway.
Money lost through rivalry and pride.

In relationships

Passionate and possessive, Byeong-O loves intensely. It does best with a calm partner who is not easily burned.

At work

Leadership, sport, the military, performance and enterprise.

A day pillar is one of four. Two people born on a Byeong-O 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.

Byeong-O day pillar