Sinyu (辛酉) day pillar
A jewel on a jewel: exacting standards
What the Sinyu day pillar is like
Sinyu sets a jewel (辛) over autumn metal (酉). Metal above and below make a same-element pillar, with Friend (비견) in the day branch and Prime (건록) as its stage. Like a gem of high purity, it is read as clean, clear in its standards and proud of its work.
Fine and precise, it finishes neatly. It has an eye for beautiful, well-made things and finds it hard to put up with anything slapdash. It can be choosy about people too.
High standards can make it look strict with others. The ease to say that imperfect is fine warms this pillar.
The Sinyu ilju (day pillar), character by character
Number 58 of the sixty-pillar cycle. The table shows what Halmeoni's calendar engine computes for this pillar.
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Top character (day master) | 辛 — a jewel or a blade (yin metal) |
| Bottom character (day branch) | 酉 — Rooster · metal · autumn (about September) |
| Yin-yang | yin (both characters) |
| Elements | metal above, metal below |
| How the two relate | The same element above and below, so that element's nature shows plainly. |
| Hidden stems (ten gods) | 庚 Rob Wealth (겁재), 辛 Friend (비견) |
| Ten god of the day branch | Friend (비견) — people on your level: friends, siblings, peers; your pride |
| Twelve stages | Prime (건록) — standing on your own: steady strength |
| Void branches (공망) | 子, 丑 — an empty spot: what is hard to hold on to |
Hidden stems are the forces tucked inside the bottom character; the last one listed is the strongest. Ten gods describe each character as seen from the top character, the day master, so the same bottom character gets a different name under a different day master. The void branches are the two that have no partner in this pillar's ten-day week; they only matter when they appear elsewhere in a chart.
The twelve stages here count backwards for yin stems (the 음포태 method). Schools that give yin stems the yang table (양포태) get a different stage for this pillar.
A day pillar is only two of the eight characters in a chart. People who share it can read very differently once the year, month and hour are added, so take this as entertainment, not as a verdict on who you are.