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DAY PILLAR · 57 OF 60
庚申

Gyeong-Sin day pillar

Yang Metal over the Monkey경신일주 · BaZi: Geng Shen

A great sword of pure steel. The strongest metal of the sixty: decisive, just, tough and direct.

The picture

Gyeong-Sin is metal on metal in its own season. The Monkey is Yang Metal’s place of Prosperity, a full root. This pillar decides quickly, speaks plainly and does not flinch. It has a strong sense of right and wrong and acts on it. It is hard to argue with and can be hard to live with. The Monkey also holds water, which is Gyeong’s outlet, so the blade is quick as well as hard: Gyeong-Sin thinks and speaks as directly as it acts. It is a twin pillar, and it does not do things by halves.

What the pillar is made of

PartIn Gyeong-Sin
Day Master庚 Gyeong, Yang Metal
Day branch申 Sin, the Monkey
Hidden stems戊 Mu: Indirect Resource壬 Im: Eating God庚 Gyeong: Friend (main)
Life stageProsperity 建祿
Void branches子 Ja (Rat), 丑 Chuk (Ox)
Stars it carriesGanyeojidong, Hyeonchim

The Day Master sits on its own element, in the same polarity. The seat is a root: a strong sense of self and a home life run on its own terms. The partner is read as an equal, sometimes as a rival.

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

Strengths

  • Decisiveness that settles matters.
  • A sense of justice applied without favour.
  • Self-reliance in everything.

What to watch

  • Harshness in word and judgment.
  • Inflexibility once it has ruled.
  • Loneliness that follows from being feared.

In relationships

Loyal and blunt, Gyeong-Sin treats a partner as an equal. It needs to learn that not every disagreement must be won.

At work

The military, law, engineering, surgery, sport and reform.

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

Questions people ask

What does the Gyeong-Sin day pillar mean?
Gyeong-Sin (庚申) is Yang Metal over the Monkey: the strongest metal of the sixty: decisive, just, tough and direct.
How do I know if Gyeong-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 庚申, this is your pillar.
What is 庚申 called in Chinese BaZi?
Geng Shen. It is the same pillar. Korean Saju reads the characters as Gyeong-Sin and calls it Gyeongsin ilju (경신일주); BaZi sources write Geng Shen in pinyin.
Which life stage and void branches go with Gyeong-Sin?
On its own seat the Day Master is at the Prosperity stage (建祿). The official’s salary: the Day Master in its own element at full strength. Independence and earning power. The void branches for this pillar are 子 Ja (Rat) and 丑 Chuk (Ox). The strength of the whole chart depends mostly on the birth month, not on this stage alone.
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