Calculation basis

Day pillars

The 己未 Day Pillar

How Saju-Link reads the day pillar 己未 — what the stems held by the day branch are to the day stem — laid out exactly as its calculation rules have it.

己未 is day pillar number 56 of the sexagenary cycle

When the stem-branch of the birth day is 己未, the day stem is 己 (Earth, Yin) and the day branch is 未 (the Sheep). In the sexagenary cycle it is the combination number 56.

Saju-Link calls a person whose day stem is 己 "Yin Earth (己)", and the line the result screen shows is: "Field soil. It takes in whatever comes and grows it, tending rather than displaying." This line has nothing to do with the reading below or the scores.

What the stems held by the day branch 未 are to the day stem

The day branch is the spouse position. Read from the day stem 己, the stems that 未 holds are as follows. The principal stem (己) is the branch's representative energy.

The hidden stems of the day branch of 己未
Hidden stemPositionShareTo the day stem 己
Yin Fire (丁)residual (餘氣)31.0%Unconventional Support (偏印)
Yin Wood (乙)middle (中氣)10.3%Challenger (偏官)
Yin Earth (己)principal (本氣)58.7%Companion (比肩)

The spouse position and this day pillar

Traditional myeongri reads the spouse position as Steady Wealth (正財) for men and Authority (正官) for women. With 己 as the day stem, Steady Wealth is 壬 and Authority is 甲.

For men, the spouse position (Steady Wealth) is 壬. 壬 is not held inside 未.

For women, the spouse position (Authority) is 甲. 甲 is not held inside 未.

The neighbouring day pillars and the characters it is made of

In the sexagenary cycle the previous day pillar is 戊午 and the next is 庚申.

It is made of Yin Earth (己) and 未 (Sheep).