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庚子

Gyeong-Ja day pillar

Yang Metal over the Rat경자일주 · BaZi: Geng Zi

A sword washed in cold water. A clear, cool and brilliant nature with a sharp tongue and a clean mind.

The picture

Gyeong-Ja is metal producing water. Yang Metal gives itself to the Rat in the opposite polarity, the pattern readers prize for intelligence. This pillar is lucid, articulate and exact, and it says what it sees. The water is cold. Gyeong-Ja can be right in a way that leaves it alone. The Rat holds a single stem, so nothing dilutes the gift or softens it: what Gyeong-Ja thinks arrives exactly as thought.

What the pillar is made of

PartIn Gyeong-Ja
Day Master庚 Gyeong, Yang Metal
Day branch子 Ja, the Rat
Hidden stems癸 Gye: Hurting Officer
Life stageDeath 死
Void branches辰 Jin (Dragon), 巳 Sa (Snake)
Stars it carriesNone of its own

The Day Master sits on the element it produces, in the opposite polarity. Expression and independence sit in the most personal place of the chart: lively and outspoken at home. In a female chart tradition reads this as a need for a partner who accepts a strong voice.

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

Strengths

  • Clarity that cuts through confusion.
  • Eloquence, in speech and in writing.
  • Analysis without sentiment.

What to watch

  • Coldness that keeps people at a distance.
  • Criticism offered before it is asked for.
  • Loneliness as the price of being right.

In relationships

Cool on the surface, Gyeong-Ja is faithful and honest. It needs warmth from a partner and has to learn to offer it.

At work

Law, criticism, writing, technology, research and music.

A day pillar is one of four. Two people born on a Gyeong-Ja 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 Gyeong-Ja day pillar mean?
Gyeong-Ja (庚子) is Yang Metal over the Rat: a clear, cool and brilliant nature with a sharp tongue and a clean mind.
How do I know if Gyeong-Ja 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 庚子, this is your pillar.
What is 庚子 called in Chinese BaZi?
Geng Zi. It is the same pillar. Korean Saju reads the characters as Gyeong-Ja and calls it Gyeongja ilju (경자일주); BaZi sources write Geng Zi in pinyin.
Which life stage and void branches go with Gyeong-Ja?
On its own seat the Day Master is at the Death stage (死). Stillness. Not literal death but the end of activity; introspection and endings. 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.
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