Sinsa (辛巳) day pillar
A jewel under early-summer light: a neat sense of duty
What the Sinsa day pillar is like
Sinsa is a jewel (辛) beside early-summer fire (巳). Fire governs metal, so Direct Officer (정관) sits below. Like a gem catching the light, it is read as someone who shines in a proper place with a defined role, and who cares about manners and appearances.
Hidden in 巳 are 戊 as Direct Resource (정인) and 庚 as Rob Wealth (겁재): a wish to learn alongside a dislike of losing. At work it aims for clean, careful results and particularly dislikes slipping up in front of others. The stage is Death (사), the reflective stage.
Other people's verdicts can sway it easily. Measuring against yesterday's self rather than against others makes life a lot calmer.
The Sinsa ilju (day pillar), character by character
Number 18 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) | 巳 — Snake · fire · early summer (about May) |
| Yin-yang | yin (both characters) |
| Elements | metal above, fire below |
| How the two relate | The bottom character presses on the top one: shaped by duty and pressure. |
| Hidden stems (ten gods) | 戊 Direct Resource (정인), 庚 Rob Wealth (겁재), 丙 Direct Officer (정관) |
| Ten god of the day branch | Direct Officer (정관) — rules, a job, a good name; for a woman, a husband |
| Twelve stages | Death (사) — stillness: deep thought, the inner life |
| Void branches (공망) | 申, 酉 — 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.