Your Day Master is the heavenly stem of your day pillar (see what the Day Master is). If yours is 辛, you are a Yin Metal Day Master. Not sure? The free calculator shows it at the top of your chart.
| Stem | 辛 Xin |
|---|---|
| Element · polarity | Metal · Yin |
| Sibling stem | 庚 Geng Metal (yang) |
| Strongest season | autumn (申 酉 months) |
| Birth · Peak · Tomb | 子 · 申 · 辰 (twelve life stages) |
| Combines with | 丙 — the pair is said to transform into water (combinations) |
| Clashed by | 乙 |
The classical verse
The Di Tian Sui (滴天髓), the most quoted text on the ten stems, gives 辛 a verse of eight four-character lines:
辛金軟弱，溫潤而清，畏土之疊，樂水之盈，能扶社稷，能救生靈，熱則喜母，寒則喜丁。“Xin metal is soft, warm, lustrous and clear. It fears piled-up earth and delights in abundant water. It can uphold the state and can save living beings. In heat it welcomes its mother; in cold it welcomes Ding.”— Di Tian Sui (Drops from Heaven’s Marrow) 《滴天髓》, 天干論. Original text: Wikisource · also on ctext.org (different edition). Translation: bazimethod.
Reading the verse line by line
The commentary is careful to say Xin is not simply “jewellery”:
辛乃陰金，非珠玉之謂，特溫柔清潤耳“Xin is yin metal; it does not mean pearls and jade; it is simply warm, gentle, clear and lustrous.”— Di Tian Sui (Drops from Heaven’s Marrow) 《滴天髓》, 天干論. Original text: Wikisource · also on ctext.org (different edition). Translation: bazimethod.
“Fears piled-up earth; delights in abundant water.” Too much 戊 earth buries Xin; 壬 water makes it shine (“much Ren water makes it elegant”). Water is Xin’s Hurting Officer and Eating God, its outlet.
“Uphold the state; save living beings.” Allegories from the commentary: Xin protects 丙 fire by restraining water, and combines with 丙 (丙辛合, water) so that fire does not burn 甲 wood.
“In heat it welcomes its mother; in cold it welcomes Ding.” Born in summer, Xin wants 己 earth (its mother, Indirect Resource) to shield it from fire; born in deep winter, it wants 丁 fire to warm it:
生於九夏，而得己土，則能晦火而存之，生於隆冬，而得丁火，則能敵寒而養之“Born in high summer, if it gets Ji earth, the earth can dim the fire and preserve it; born in deep winter, if it gets Ding fire, the fire can resist the cold and nourish it.”— Di Tian Sui (Drops from Heaven’s Marrow) 《滴天髓》, 天干論. Original text: Wikisource · also on ctext.org (different edition). Translation: bazimethod.
Xin in the four seasons
- Spring: wood is strong; earth and metal support help.
- Summer: per the verse, 己 earth to protect it, and water.
- Autumn: in season; water to wash it is the classic preference.
- Winter: cold; 丁 fire to warm it, per the verse.
The ten gods for a 辛 Day Master
Every other stem in your chart takes a role relative to 辛. This is the ten gods table worked out for Xin Metal; hidden stems inside the branches (see hidden stems) use the same table.
| Stem | Element | Ten god | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| 甲 Jia | Yang Wood | 正财 | Direct Wealth |
| 乙 Yi | Yin Wood | 偏财 | Indirect Wealth |
| 丙 Bing | Yang Fire | 正官 | Direct Officer |
| 丁 Ding | Yin Fire | 七杀 | Seven Killings |
| 戊 Wu | Yang Earth | 正印 | Direct Resource |
| 己 Ji | Yin Earth | 偏印 | Indirect Resource |
| 庚 Geng | Yang Metal | 劫财 | Rob Wealth |
| 辛 Xin | Yin Metal | 比肩 | Companion |
| 壬 Ren | Yang Water | 伤官 | Hurting Officer |
| 癸 Gui | Yin Water | 食神 | Eating God |
Strong or weak?
Whether a 辛 Day Master is strong or weak depends on the whole chart, above all the month branch. Xin is in season in 申 and 酉. In the yin-backward table it is born in 子 and peaks in 申. Metal roots, and earth that is not excessive, strengthen it; fire, water and wood weaken it. The general method is on the Day Master and useful god pages.
A word on personality descriptions
Many websites give each Day Master a fixed personality. The classical texts do not work that way: the verse above describes how 辛 behaves in different seasons and next to other elements, and the same 辛 reads very differently in a summer chart and a winter chart. We give the traditional images as tradition, for cultural study, not as a description of any real person.
All ten Day Masters
甲 Jia Wood · 乙 Yi Wood · 丙 Bing Fire · 丁 Ding Fire · 戊 Wu Earth · 己 Ji Earth · 庚 Geng Metal · 辛 Xin Metal · 壬 Ren Water · 癸 Gui Water
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Keep learning
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Classical quotations are copied from the public-domain texts on Wikisource; links let you check every line. English translations are our own. Traditional Bazi statements are reported as tradition, not as fact.