What does the Im-Ja day pillar mean?

Im-Ja (壬子) is Yang Water over the Rat: the strongest water of the sixty: deep, intelligent, magnetic and unstoppable.

How do I know if Im-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 壬子, this is your pillar.

What is 壬子 called in Chinese BaZi?

Ren Zi. It is the same pillar. Korean Saju reads the characters as Im-Ja and calls it Imja ilju (임자일주); BaZi sources write Ren Zi in pinyin.

Which life stage and void branches go with Im-Ja?

On its own seat the Day Master is at the Peak stage (帝旺). The emperor’s height: maximum strength. Powerful, sometimes overbearing; the phase before decline. The void branches for this pillar are 寅 In (Tiger) and 卯 Myo (Rabbit). The strength of the whole chart depends mostly on the birth month, not on this stage alone.

壬子 Im-Ja day pillar (Yang Water Rat): meaning in Saju

The picture

Im-Ja is water on water at the bottom of the year. The Rat is Yang Water’s Yang Blade, the point of maximum strength. This pillar is intelligent, strong-willed and hard to read, with a pull that people feel. It goes where it means to go. Too much of it floods. It is also a twin pillar, stem and branch the same element, and it carries the Red Peach Blossom: the pull people feel is part of the pillar. Im-Ja does not explain itself.

What the pillar is made of

Part	In Im-Ja
Day Master	壬 Im, Yang Water
Day branch	子 Ja, the Rat
Hidden stems	癸 Gye: Rob Wealth
Life stage	Peak 帝旺
Void branches	寅 In (Tiger), 卯 Myo (Rabbit)
Stars it carries	Ganyeojidong, Yang Blade, Red Peach Blossom

The Day Master sits on its own element in the other polarity, the strongest root there is. It gives great self-confidence and a competitive edge. Tradition advises care with shared money and with pride inside a marriage.

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

Strengths

Intelligence that goes deep.
Drive that does not let go.
Depth that draws people in.

What to watch

Excess: too much of everything.
Secretiveness about what it really wants.
Money lost through rivalry.

In relationships

Passionate and possessive, Im-Ja loves deeply and keeps a part of itself hidden. It needs a partner who can stand in deep water.

At work

Trade, shipping, research, strategy, leadership and the arts.

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

Im-Ja day pillar