庚寅 Day Pillar · Geng · Tiger

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Strong metal and rising spring wood set against each other.

Stem Geng (庚) · Branch Tiger (寅)

Geng (庚) is yang Metal, which the Dichten Sui calls firmest of all (剛強為最), and Yin (寅) is the Wood of early spring (孟春). Strong metal works spring wood (金剋木), yet early spring is when wood gains strength, so the cutting force and the rising force meet face to face.

How to read this pairing

Jeombaksa reads this as firm metal facing wood that rises with the spring. This is only the imagery of a two-character pairing; actual tendencies must be read with the other six characters and the season.

What the combination shows

• Firm yang metal (the cutting force) and wood rising with spring meet face to face
• Spring is when wood gains strength, so even where metal works it, the wood keeps a rising force
• Metal working wood (Wealth) — a place where the direction is set outward

A note of caution

Within these two characters only Metal and Wood show; the other six characters of the chart may hold other elements. Don’t judge character from the Day Pillar’s two characters alone.

Questions to ask yourself (work · relationships)

Work · When handling a strong counterpart, by what do you choose between pressing to win and matching grain to go together?

Relationships · In a taut relationship, what do you set down first so neither side has to break the other?

Related pages

• Geng (庚) Day Masterthe stem (the ‘self’) of this pillar
• 庚申 Day PillarClear-cut in decisions — once set, it pushes through.
• 庚午 Day PillarStrong metal meeting high-summer fire.
• 庚辰 Day PillarStrong metal receiving generation from late-spring soil.
• 庚戌 Day PillarGathered late-autumn soil bracing strong metal.
• 庚子 Day PillarStrong metal giving its energy to midwinter water.

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