Gui You Day Pillar 癸酉

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 Gui You (癸酉), the Day Master is Gui Water (a clear spring and a gentle drizzle) sitting on the Rooster branch, whose element is Metal.

You sit on the metal that gives you life (Indirect Resource), neat, bright and intuitive. With perfectionist tendencies and sensitivity, you are someone who grows through learning.

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 You different from the other five Gui Water 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 unusual insight (Indirect Resource) sits in your spouse seat, so you are drawn to distinctive, spiritually deep partners. You need to respect each other’s worlds while widening the points of conversation.

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.

Indirect Resource here means: Indirect Resource (Pian Yin) stands for original thinking and unusual intuition. You have the insight to catch what others miss and often stand out in specialized and unusual fields. But you may think a lot, become indecisive, or fall into a world of your own, so adding the ability to turn thoughts into action leads to good results.

Illness (Bing): an energy where vitality has weakened somewhat. Looking after body and mind matters, but you are delicate and caring for it.

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: 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 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: Wu Chen (戊辰) combines with Gui You on both the stem and the branch.
• Opposite pillar (most friction): Ji Mao (己卯): 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.