Gui Chou · 癸丑
Gui Chou pairs a Yin Water Day Master with 丑 (the Ox), a Earth branch. If this is your day pillar, the pairing below describes tendencies worth observing — not a verdict.
The Day Master on top
Yin Water · 癸 — The classical image for 癸 is rain, dew, still water: the water that reaches roots without announcing itself. A Yin Water Day Master tends to perceive first and speak later — patterns, moods, and implications register before anyone has named them.
Read the full profile →The branch beneath — your spouse palace
In a day pillar, the branch is read as the spouse palace: the texture of close partnership. 丑 (the Ox) carries these hidden stems, each read as a relationship between that stem and your Day Master:
己
Pressure
Pressure without the soft title — urgency, rivals, and hard edges that demand response.
癸
Peer
Same polarity, same element as the Day Master — peers, self-reliance, and parallel drive.
辛
Indirect Resource
Indirect resource — unconventional learning, odd mentors, and support that arrives sideways.
Na Yin
The Na Yin of Gui Chou is 桑柘木 — "Mulberry Wood". Na Yin is a poetic sixty-fold naming of the pillars, used as a secondary texture rather than a primary verdict.
Stage of the cycle
Coming of age — Dressing for the role — capability is assembling; recognition is near.
Void branches (Xun Kong)
Charts anchored on 癸丑 treat 寅卯 as "void" — branches whose signals are read as weakened or delayed rather than absent.
Is Gui Chou actually your day pillar?
The day pillar comes from your exact birth date — and near midnight, from true solar time. Calculate it instead of guessing.
As with everything on Truenoon, this page describes observable tendencies, not a verdict on who you are.