Jia Zi · 甲子
Jia Zi pairs a Yang Wood Day Master with 子 (the Rat), a Water branch. If this is your day pillar, the pairing below describes tendencies worth observing — not a verdict.
The Day Master on top
Yang Wood · 甲 — The classical image for 甲 is a tall tree: growth that goes upward, visibly, along a trunk. A Yang Wood Day Master tends to move in straight lines — set a direction, build toward it, and prefer progress you can point at.
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. 子 (the Rat) carries one hidden stem, each read as a relationship between that stem and your Day Master:
癸
Direct Resource
Direct resource — care, credentials, protection, and knowledge that steadies the self.
Na Yin
The Na Yin of Jia Zi is 海中金 — "Gold in the Sea". 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
Bathing — Vulnerable openness — early energy, exposed and still forming.
Void branches (Xun Kong)
Charts anchored on 甲子 treat 戌亥 as "void" — branches whose signals are read as weakened or delayed rather than absent.
Is Jia Zi 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.