Calculation basis

Day pillars

The 庚子 Day Pillar

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

庚子 is day pillar number 37 of the sexagenary cycle

When the stem-branch of the birth day is 庚子, the day stem is 庚 (Metal, Yang) and the day branch is 子 (the Rat). In the sexagenary cycle it is the combination number 37.

Saju-Link calls a person whose day stem is 庚 "Yang Metal (庚)", and the line the result screen shows is: "Unworked iron. Decisive and clear-cut, with little patience for things left hanging." This line has nothing to do with the reading below or the scores.

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

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

The hidden stems of the day branch of 庚子
Hidden stemPositionShareTo the day stem 庚
Yang Water (壬)residual (餘氣)34.3%Expression (食神)
Yin Water (癸)principal (本氣)65.7%Disruptor (傷官)

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 庚 as the day stem, Steady Wealth is 乙 and Authority is 丁.

For men, the spouse position (Steady Wealth) is 乙. 乙 is not held inside 子.

For women, the spouse position (Authority) is 丁. 丁 is not held inside 子.

The neighbouring day pillars and the characters it is made of

In the sexagenary cycle the previous day pillar is 己亥 and the next is 辛丑.

It is made of Yang Metal (庚) and 子 (Rat).