Gyeongsul (庚戌) day pillar
Iron on an autumn hill: spirit that will not bend
What the Gyeongsul day pillar is like
Gyeongsul is raw iron (庚) on the earth of late autumn (戌). Earth makes metal, so Indirect Resource (편인) sits below, and the stage is Decline (쇠). Hard iron set in dry earth: it is read as spirited and slow to bend, and it is traditionally counted among the forceful pillars.
Hidden in 戌 are 丁 as Direct Officer (정관) and 辛 as Rob Wealth (겁재): duty and a will to win together. It steps forward in a crisis and speaks up against unfairness. It can also sink deep into unusual ideas or studies.
Pushing hard does not always work. Learning to step back and match another person's pace takes its strength further.
The Gyeongsul ilju (day pillar), character by character
Number 47 of the sixty-pillar cycle. The table shows what Halmeoni's calendar engine computes for this pillar.
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Top character (day master) | 庚 — rock or raw iron (yang metal) |
| Bottom character (day branch) | 戌 — Dog · earth · late autumn (about October) |
| Yin-yang | yang (both characters) |
| Elements | metal above, earth below |
| How the two relate | The bottom character feeds the top one: support from the ground up. |
| Hidden stems (ten gods) | 辛 Rob Wealth (겁재), 丁 Direct Officer (정관), 戊 Indirect Resource (편인) |
| Ten god of the day branch | Indirect Resource (편인) — unusual learning, intuition |
| Twelve stages | Decline (쇠) — strength settling: calm, experienced |
| Void branches (공망) | 寅, 卯 — 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.
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.