The picture
Im-Sul is deep water behind a wall. The Dog’s Earth controls Yang Water, and the fire hidden there combines with the Day Master. This pillar is both Kui Gang and White Tiger. It is ambitious, strategic and self-controlled, and it carries a great deal of pressure. When the dam gives, it gives all at once.
What the pillar is made of
| Part | In Im-Sul |
|---|---|
| Day Master | 壬 Im, Yang Water |
| Day branch | 戌 Sul, the Dog |
| Hidden stems | 辛 Sin: Direct Resource丁 Jeong: Direct Wealth戊 Mu: Seven Killings (main) |
| Life stage | Youth 冠帶 |
| Void branches | 子 Ja (Rat), 丑 Chuk (Ox) |
| Stars it carries | Canopy Star, Ildeok, White Tiger, Kui Gang, Seven Killings |
The Day Master sits on the element that controls it, in the same polarity. Pressure is built into the seat: this pillar is used to being tested and often has a strong-willed partner. Readers look for something in the chart that handles the pressure, an Eating God or a Resource.
These are the facts every Im-Sul chart shares, whatever the other three pillars hold. They are taken from the same engine that calculates your chart.
Strengths
- Self-control under heavy pressure.
- Ambition with patience behind it.
- Strategy: it plans the whole campaign.
What to watch
- Pressure that builds unseen.
- Extremes when control gives way.
- Severity with itself and others.
In relationships
Intense and serious, Im-Sul commits fully and needs a partner it can let its guard down with.
At work
Leadership, finance, law, the military, engineering and religious life.