Day Master series
Find the reference point in your chart.
The Day Master is the first character of your day pillar — the reference point everything else in a BaZi chart is read against. There are exactly ten: five elements, each in a yang and a yin expression. Each carries a classical image that is still the fastest way to understand it.
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Find mine with a free chartFive elements. Ten Day Masters.
In your result, find the day column and read its upper character. That is your Day Master. The two-character day pillar includes the branch beneath it.
Day Master, day pillar, zodiac animal
- Day Master
- One character: the heavenly stem of the day. There are ten possibilities.
- Day pillar
- Two characters: the day stem plus its branch. There are sixty possible pairs.
- Zodiac animal
- Usually refers to the branch of the year. It is a different part of the chart.