Gui Si Day Pillar 癸巳

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 Gui Si (癸巳), the Day Master is Gui Water (a clear spring and a gentle drizzle) sitting on the Snake branch, whose element is Fire.

You sit on the fire of wealth (Direct Wealth), clever with a sharp sense of reality. Quick to read people and exact at calculating, though the tension of water and fire makes mood swings likely.

Gui Water is like a clear spring or a fine drizzle that quietly seeps in and moistens everything. Your intuition is excellent and you sense even what can’t be seen. You may look quiet but think deeply inside, and stay calm in a crisis. You rarely show your inner thoughts, so opening up a bit more to close people helps.

What makes Gui Si different from the other five Gui Water Day Pillars is the branch it sits on, covered below.

With Si beneath your Day Master, you are quick-witted with a good competitive sense and hide passion inside. There is the energy of bright Fire in your spouse seat, so you connect with smart, attractive people. When jealousy and attachment rise, the ease of pausing for one beat protects the relationship.

The energy of stable wealth (Direct Wealth) sits in your spouse seat, so diligent, thrifty partners tend to come. You are strong at building a realistic home together.

Gui Water loves gently and sensitively like a drizzle. Highly empathetic, you read and comfort your partner, but you think a lot and easily imagine worries alone. When you want to check something, ask instead of guessing.

Direct Wealth here means: Direct Wealth (Zheng Cai) stands for steadily accumulating, stable wealth and diligence. You are the type to produce results through solid effort step by step, with strengths in saving and planned spending. You show your ability especially well in trust-based relationships and stable work environments, with a flow in which steadiness, more than a big win, bears fruit.

Conception (Tai): the energy of a new life conceived. A time of preparing and holding something, with potential that is growing.

Hidden inside the Snake branch: Wu (Earth, 7 days), Geng (Metal, 7 days), Bing (Fire, 16 days). These quieter energies show up in private, under stress or later in life.

Areas to look after: kidneys, bladder, reproductive organs, ears, bones and lower back.

Too much Water energy can cause swelling or chills, and thoughts chaining on may deepen low mood. Exercise that makes you sweat, sunlight and turning thoughts into action with a to-do list help.

Too little Water energy brings dryness and fatigue that doesn’t recover, and the lower back, knees and ears may weaken. Drink water often, sleep enough and build lower-body strength.

• Six Harmony: the Snake pairs with the Monkey. People with a Monkey 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 Snake clashes with the Pig. It is not doom, only a spot where friction and change come easily.
• Perfect match on stem and branch: Wu Shen (戊申) combines with Gui Si on both the stem and the branch.
• Opposite pillar (most friction): Ji Hai (己亥): 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.