The picture
Gye-Chuk is water in winter ground. The Ox’s Earth controls Yin Water, but the Ox also holds a root for it and metal that turns pressure into support. This is a White Tiger pillar. Gye-Chuk endures, thinks deeply and does not give up. It carries weight quietly. The Ox is cold and wet, and Gye-Chuk’s strength is the strength of winter: nothing is wasted, nothing is shown, and everything is kept for when it is needed.
What the pillar is made of
| Part | In Gye-Chuk |
|---|---|
| Day Master | 癸 Gye, Yin Water |
| Day branch | 丑 Chuk, the Ox |
| Hidden stems | 癸 Gye: Friend辛 Sin: Indirect Resource己 Gi: Seven Killings (main) |
| Life stage | Youth 冠帶 |
| Void branches | 寅 In (Tiger), 卯 Myo (Rabbit) |
| Stars it carries | Canopy Star, Bokseong, White Tiger, Amnok, Seven Killings, Tanghwa |
The Day Master sits on the element that controls it, in the same polarity. Pressure is built into the seat: this pillar is used to being tested and often has a strong-willed partner. Readers look for something in the chart that handles the pressure, an Eating God or a Resource.
These are the facts every Gye-Chuk chart shares, whatever the other three pillars hold. They are taken from the same engine that calculates your chart.
Strengths
- Endurance in the hardest conditions.
- Depth of thought and concentration.
- A will that does not give up.
What to watch
- Gloom when progress is slow.
- Harshness toward itself and others.
- Anger held in for too long.
In relationships
Serious and loyal, Gye-Chuk takes relationships as commitments. It needs lightness from a partner.
At work
Research, medicine, finance, law, engineering and religious life.