What does the Byeong-Sin day pillar mean?

Byeong-Sin (丙申) is Yang Fire over the Monkey: a versatile, witty and sociable nature with many talents and a head for business.

How do I know if Byeong-Sin 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 丙申, this is your pillar.

What is 丙申 called in Chinese BaZi?

Bing Shen. It is the same pillar. Korean Saju reads the characters as Byeong-Sin and calls it Byeongsin ilju (병신일주); BaZi sources write Bing Shen in pinyin.

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

On its own seat the Day Master is at the Sickness stage (病). Weakness and vulnerability. Read literally in health matters and figuratively as loss of momentum. The void branches for this pillar are 辰 Jin (Dragon) and 巳 Sa (Snake). The strength of the whole chart depends mostly on the birth month, not on this stage alone.

丙申 Byeong-Sin day pillar (Yang Fire Monkey): meaning in Saju

The picture

Byeong-Sin is the afternoon sun on metal. Yang Fire controls the Monkey’s Metal, so this pillar sits on opportunity and knows it. It is clever, entertaining and interested in everything. The water hidden in the Monkey pulls against the fire, which makes the energy uneven: brilliant one day, flat the next.

What the pillar is made of

Part	In Byeong-Sin
Day Master	丙 Byeong, Yang Fire
Day branch	申 Sin, the Monkey
Hidden stems	戊 Mu: Eating God壬 Im: Seven Killings庚 Gyeong: Indirect Wealth (main)
Life stage	Sickness 病
Void branches	辰 Jin (Dragon), 巳 Sa (Snake)
Stars it carries	Academic Star, Amnok, Hyeonchim

The Day Master sits on the element it controls, in the same polarity. Enterprise and a feel for opportunity are at the core, and the home tends to be busy and open. In a male chart tradition reads a Wealth star in the spouse palace as a strong tie to the partner.

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

Strengths

Versatility: it can do many things well.
Wit that makes it welcome anywhere.
Business sense and an eye for a deal.

What to watch

Effort scattered over too many interests.
Restlessness when a task turns routine.
Energy that is brilliant one day and gone the next.

In relationships

Charming and playful, Byeong-Sin needs variety and a partner who can keep up.

At work

Trade, finance, technology, media and travel.

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