Yang Metal Day Master — 庚 (gēng)
The Day Master is the heavenly stem of the day pillar: the sign that stands for you in a BaZi chart, the one every other sign is read against. There are ten of them, each element in a yang and a yin form. If you do not know yours yet, the calculator finds it from your birth date, time and place in a few seconds.
Traditional image
Yang Metal is raw ore, an axe, a sword before it is polished: hard, direct, made for cutting and for work. The classics say it is forged by fire and washed by water, and that without the fire it stays a lump of iron. It is the stem that turns the tree into timber. The image is decisiveness and principle, with bluntness as its edge.
Three traits in this system
In this system a Yang Metal Day Master is read as a chart with these leanings:
- Decisive: cuts rather than deliberates.
- Direct, says what it means.
- Principled, holds a line.
This is a reading by the rules of the system, for reflection and planning, not a statement about you. How much of it shows depends on the rest of the chart.
What supports it and what draws on it
Metal is fed by Earth: signs of Metal and Earth in the chart support a Yang Metal Day Master. Water is what it produces, Wood is what it controls, and Fire is what controls it: these three draw on it. In the app each of these relations has a name among the ten gods, and the library explains every one of them.
Metal is in season in the first two months of autumn (around 7 August to early October). In this system the month of birth weighs most in the strength of the Day Master, so a Yang Metal Day Master born in its own season starts with the strongest support.
Strong or weak
In this system a Yang Metal Day Master is read through forging: the chart is asked whether there is fire to shape the metal and water to polish it, or whether the edge stays rough. With strong support it is read as a chart that acts and decides; with little support it is read as metal without a smith, and the planner looks for the periods that bring tempering.
How the app decides: it looks at the season of the month branch, at the roots of the Day Master's element among the stems hidden in the earthly branches, and at how many open signs support it against how many draw on it. The thresholds are published on the calculation method page, and next to every rating the app shows “why I see this”.
Its counterpart
Yang Metal is the yang form of Metal; the yin form is Yin Metal. The two share an element and a season but are read through different images.
Find your Day Master
The calculator runs the same engine as the BaziArt app and does not store your birth data. The app adds the planner, the hour windows and the full chart with “why I see this” under every term.