甲木 · 栋梁 · Jia, yang Wood

What these words mean

• BaZi (八字): Chinese "four pillars" astrology. The moment you were born is written as four pillars, for the year, the month, the day and the hour.
• Pillar: a pair of symbols: a stem written on top and a branch below it. Your year pillar is the pair for your year of birth, and your day pillar the pair for your day of birth. Four pillars make eight symbols, which is what BaZi means: "eight characters".
• Stem (天干, Heavenly Stem): the top symbol of a pillar. There are ten. Each is one of the five elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water) in its yang or its yin form.
• Yang and yin: the two forms of each element. Yang is the bigger, bolder form (Wood as a towering tree), and yin the finer, gentler one (Wood as flowers and vines).
• Day Master (日主): the stem of your day pillar. It stands for you, and the rest of the chart is read in relation to it.
• Ten Gods (十神): the names for how any stem relates to your Day Master, such as Direct Officer or Rob Wealth. Each one stands for a part of life: work, money, people or support.
• Luck pillars and annual pillars: a full chart also has a pillar for each ten-year stretch of life (a luck pillar) and for each year (an annual pillar). They are read against your birth chart.

甲

阳木 · yang Wood

如参天大树——正直、雄心勃勃、志向高远

领袖之才开创志向远大意志坚定

Leader · Pioneer · Ambitious · Determined

日主只是八字的一个字：同为甲木的人，因月令、十神与大运不同，命运差别很大。要看准，必须排全盘。Your Day Master is only one of the eight symbols in your chart. Two people with Jia Wood as their Day Master can have very different lives, because their month branch, Ten Gods and luck pillars differ. To read it properly, you need the full chart.