Calculation basis

Day pillars

The 辛巳 Day Pillar

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

辛巳 is day pillar number 18 of the sexagenary cycle

When the stem-branch of the birth day is 辛巳, the day stem is 辛 (Metal, Yin) and the day branch is 巳 (the Snake). In the sexagenary cycle it is the combination number 18.

Saju-Link calls a person whose day stem is 辛 "Yin Metal (辛)", and the line the result screen shows is: "A cut gem. Fine-grained taste and high standards; sloppiness is hard to let pass." This line has nothing to do with the reading below or the scores.

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

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

The hidden stems of the day branch of 辛巳
Hidden stemPositionShareTo the day stem 辛
Yang Earth (戊)residual (餘氣)24.0%Nurture (正印)
Yang Metal (庚)middle (中氣)24.0%Rival (劫財)
Yang Fire (丙)principal (本氣)52.0%Authority (正官)

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 辛 as the day stem, Steady Wealth is 甲 and Authority is 丙.

For men, the spouse position (Steady Wealth) is 甲. 甲 is not held inside 巳.

For women, the spouse position (Authority) is 丙. 丙 is held inside 巳 (principal (本氣)).

The neighbouring day pillars and the characters it is made of

In the sexagenary cycle the previous day pillar is 庚辰 and the next is 壬午.

It is made of Yin Metal (辛) and 巳 (Snake).