Yin Wood Day Master — 乙 (yǐ)
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
Yin Wood is grass, a vine, a flowering plant: it bends in the wind and straightens again, climbs along a wall or a tree, and finds a way around a stone instead of through it. The classics say the vine that winds around a great tree rises as high as the tree does, which is read as a gift for growing through alliances. It needs sun and rain more than anything, and it wilts under heavy metal in autumn.
Three traits in this system
In this system a Yin Wood Day Master is read as a chart with these leanings:
- Adaptable: bends and recovers.
- Resilient in a quiet way.
- Tactful, grows through people.
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
Wood is fed by Water: signs of Wood and Water in the chart support a Yin Wood Day Master. Fire is what it produces, Earth is what it controls, and Metal 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.
Wood is in season from the start of spring in the traditional calendar (around 4 February) to early April. In this system the month of birth weighs most in the strength of the Day Master, so a Yin Wood Day Master born in its own season starts with the strongest support.
Strong or weak
In this system a Yin Wood Day Master is read through flexibility and support: the chart is asked where the plant can climb and whether the season gives it light. With strong support it is read as a chart that spreads and blooms; with little support it is read as a plant waiting for spring, and the planner looks for warmth and water rather than for pressure.
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
Yin Wood is the yin form of Wood; the yang form is Yang Wood. 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.