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戊寅

Mu-In day pillar

Yang Earth over the Tiger무인일주 · BaZi: Wu Yin

A mountain with a tiger in its forest. A dignified, ambitious nature that lives with challenge and grows through it.

The picture

Mu-In is a mountain covered in forest. The Tiger’s Wood controls Yang Earth, so this pillar sits on pressure. But the Tiger also holds fire, which turns that pressure into support, and a little earth of its own. Challenge, backing and self are all in the same place. Mu-In people tend to be given responsibility early and to rise to it. They carry themselves with authority.

What the pillar is made of

PartIn Mu-In
Day Master戊 Mu, Yang Earth
Day branch寅 In, the Tiger
Hidden stems戊 Mu: Friend丙 Byeong: Indirect Resource甲 Gap: Seven Killings (main)
Life stageBirth 長生
Void branches申 Sin (Monkey), 酉 Yu (Rooster)
Stars it carriesLiteracy Star, Seven Killings, Tanghwa

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

Strengths

  • Authority that others accept.
  • Courage.
  • The ability to grow under pressure.

What to watch

  • Stress taken as normal.
  • Pride.
  • Confrontation when a softer way exists.

In relationships

Mu-In is drawn to strong-willed partners and to relationships with some friction in them. It needs to learn that home is not another test.

At work

Leadership, public office, the military or police, organisations and enterprise.

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

Questions people ask

What does the Mu-In day pillar mean?
Mu-In (戊寅) is Yang Earth over the Tiger: a dignified, ambitious nature that lives with challenge and grows through it.
How do I know if Mu-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 戊寅, this is your pillar.
What is 戊寅 called in Chinese BaZi?
Wu Yin. It is the same pillar. Korean Saju reads the characters as Mu-In and calls it Muin ilju (무인일주); BaZi sources write Wu Yin in pinyin.
Which life stage and void branches go with Mu-In?
On its own seat the Day Master is at the Birth stage (長生). Growth stage: fresh energy, support, new beginnings. A favourable phase. The void branches for this pillar are 申 Sin (Monkey) and 酉 Yu (Rooster). The strength of the whole chart depends mostly on the birth month, not on this stage alone.
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