Ding You Day Pillar 丁酉

The Day Pillar is the two characters of the day you were born: a Heavenly Stem on top (your Day Master, the “you” of a Saju chart) and an Earthly Branch below (your inner self and spouse palace). In Ding You (丁酉), the Day Master is Ding Fire (a candle lighting the dark) sitting on the Rooster branch, whose element is Metal.

You sit on the metal of wealth (Indirect Wealth), a Day Pillar with refined senses and open money luck. Excellent in detail and taste, your own standards are high and you tend to whip yourself on.

Ding Fire is like a candle or lantern that quietly lights its surroundings. You hold your place steadily rather than showing off. Sensitive and good at sensing other people’s hearts, you make a good adviser and companion. You tend to keep feelings to yourself, so it is wise to have an outlet where you can express them.

What makes Ding You different from the other five Ding Fire Day Pillars is the branch it sits on, covered below.

With You beneath your Day Master, you are neat, delicate and clear in your standards. There is refined Metal energy in your spouse seat, so you tend to meet polished, courteous partners. A moment may come when your partner’s small flaw looms large, so if you take “good enough” as the standard instead of perfect, the relationship becomes easier.

The energy of active wealth (Indirect Wealth) sits in your spouse seat, so you tend to meet sociable, generous partners. With so much charm and freedom, you need to build stability through trust and communication.

Ding Fire loves softly and devotedly like candlelight. When you give your heart, you give it deeply and for a long time, noticing even small changes. You keep feelings, jealousy and hurt inside, which can leave you alone with them; put them into words.

Indirect Wealth here means: Indirect Wealth (Pian Cai) stands for money that flows in and out and for business skill. You have a good sense for spotting opportunity and a big appetite, so you are good at moving large sums, and you have the knack of turning a network of people into wealth. Spending can grow just as large, so planned management lets you grow your money luck more steadily.

Growth (Chang Sheng): the energy of a newborn baby, with growth possibilities wide open. You are good at learning and starting, and help comes easily from others.

Hidden inside the Rooster branch: Geng (Metal, 10 days), Xin (Metal, 20 days). These quieter energies show up in private, under stress or later in life.

Areas to look after: heart, small intestine, blood vessels, blood pressure and tongue.

Too much Fire energy sends heat upward, with insomnia, palpitations, higher blood pressure and a hasty temper standing out. Cut caffeine, late-night eating and spicy food, and try breathing meditation before sleep.

Too little Fire energy leaves the body cold and circulation slow, and enthusiasm cools easily. Raise your body’s temperature with warm food, aerobic exercise and walks in the sun.

• Six Harmony: the Rooster pairs with the Dragon. People with a Dragon Day Branch often feel an easy pull toward you.
• Three Harmony: the Ox · Rooster · Snake form a Metal team, so those animals tend to bring out your best.
• Clash: the Rooster clashes with the Rabbit. It is not doom, only a spot where friction and change come easily.
• Perfect match on stem and branch: Ren Chen (壬辰) combines with Ding You on both the stem and the branch.
• Opposite pillar (most friction): Gui Mao (癸卯): its stem is Seven Killings to you and its branch clashes with yours.

Day Pillars are one part of compatibility. For a full comparison of two charts, try the compatibility reading.

Your Day Pillar depends on your birth date, not your birth year. Enter your date of birth in the Day Pillar finder or get a complete chart with the free Saju calculator, which also gives your Day Master strength, Useful God and Luck Cycles.