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DAY PILLAR · 30 OF 60
癸巳

Gye-Sa day pillar

Yin Water over the Snake계사일주 · BaZi: Gui Si

Rain falling in sunshine. A clever, charming and practical nature that tradition counts as fortunate.

The picture

Gye-Sa is water over fire, and the two are on good terms. The Snake holds both wealth and position for Yin Water, and its earth stem combines with the Day Master. It is also one of the four pillars that carry their own Nobleman. Gye-Sa is quick, resourceful and well liked. The meeting of water and fire inside it shows as nerves.

What the pillar is made of

PartIn Gye-Sa
Day Master癸 Gye, Yin Water
Day branch巳 Sa, the Snake
Hidden stems戊 Mu: Direct Officer庚 Gyeong: Direct Resource丙 Byeong: Direct Wealth (main)
Life stageConception 胎
Void branches午 O (Horse), 未 Mi (Goat)
Stars it carriesNobleman

The Day Master sits on the element it controls, in the opposite polarity. Practicality is at the core, and money and home are closely linked. In a male chart tradition reads the wife star sitting in the spouse palace as a favourable sign for marriage.

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

Strengths

  • Resourcefulness in any company.
  • People who turn up to help.
  • A feel for money and timing.

What to watch

  • Inner conflict between caution and desire.
  • Nerves that show as restlessness.
  • Calculation where warmth is wanted.

In relationships

Gye-Sa tends to do well in partnership and values a partner who brings stability and standing.

At work

Finance, trade, diplomacy, service and education.

A day pillar is one of four. Two people born on a Gye-Sa 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 Gye-Sa day pillar mean?
Gye-Sa (癸巳) is Yin Water over the Snake: a clever, charming and practical nature that tradition counts as fortunate.
How do I know if Gye-Sa 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 癸巳, this is your pillar.
What is 癸巳 called in Chinese BaZi?
Gui Si. It is the same pillar. Korean Saju reads the characters as Gye-Sa and calls it Gyesa ilju (계사일주); BaZi sources write Gui Si in pinyin.
Which life stage and void branches go with Gye-Sa?
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 午 O (Horse) and 未 Mi (Goat). The strength of the whole chart depends mostly on the birth month, not on this stage alone.
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