What does the Gyeong-In day pillar mean?

Gyeong-In (庚寅) is Yang Metal over the Tiger: an active, enterprising nature that goes after opportunity and keeps moving.

How do I know if Gyeong-In 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 庚寅, this is your pillar.

What is 庚寅 called in Chinese BaZi?

Geng Yin. It is the same pillar. Korean Saju reads the characters as Gyeong-In and calls it Gyeongin ilju (경인일주); BaZi sources write Geng Yin in pinyin.

Which life stage and void branches go with Gyeong-In?

On its own seat the Day Master is at the Extinction stage (絕). The lowest point, where the old cycle is cut off before the new one forms. Rootlessness and total change. 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.

庚寅 Gyeong-In day pillar (Yang Metal Tiger): meaning in Saju

The picture

Gyeong-In is metal among trees. Yang Metal controls the Tiger’s Wood, so this pillar sits on what it can win: money, results, new ground. It has no root in the Tiger, which makes it mobile and a little unsettled. The fire hidden in the branch adds drive and pressure. Gyeong-In is bold and likes to act first.

What the pillar is made of

Part	In Gyeong-In
Day Master	庚 Gyeong, Yang Metal
Day branch	寅 In, the Tiger
Hidden stems	戊 Mu: Indirect Resource丙 Byeong: Seven Killings甲 Gap: Indirect Wealth (main)
Life stage	Extinction 絕
Void branches	午 O (Horse), 未 Mi (Goat)
Stars it carries	Tanghwa

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 Gyeong-In chart shares, whatever the other three pillars hold. They are taken from the same engine that calculates your chart.

Strengths

Initiative: it moves before others have decided.
Courage in unfamiliar territory.
An instinct for where the business is.

What to watch

Overreach when things are going well.
Restlessness that abandons good ground.
Impulsive decisions regretted later.

In relationships

An active pursuer, Gyeong-In likes the chase and needs a partner who keeps it interested and grounded.

At work

Business, sales, work abroad, engineering, sport and the military.

A day pillar is one of four. Two people born on a Gyeong-In 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.

Gyeong-In day pillar