Xin You · 辛酉
Xin You pairs a Yin Metal Day Master with 酉 (the Rooster), a Metal branch. If this is your day pillar, the pairing below describes tendencies worth observing — not a verdict.
The Day Master on top
Yin Metal · 辛 — The classical image for 辛 is refined metal — the jewel, the fine blade: value produced by removing everything that is not the point. A Yin Metal Day Master tends to notice flaws others miss, and to be unable to un-notice 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. 酉 (the Rooster) carries one hidden stem, each read as a relationship between that stem and your Day Master:
辛
Peer
Same polarity, same element as the Day Master — peers, self-reliance, and parallel drive.
Na Yin
The Na Yin of Xin You is 石榴木 — "Pomegranate 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
Taking office — Taking the seat — competent, active, and ready to handle duty.
Void branches (Xun Kong)
Charts anchored on 辛酉 treat 子丑 as "void" — branches whose signals are read as weakened or delayed rather than absent.
Is Xin You 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.