Day Master
Jia (甲, Yang Wood)
Your Day Master (日主) is the stem of your Day Pillar — the one character every other character of your chart is read against. This page unpacks one of the ten: Jia (甲, Yang Wood).
What this day master is
Yang Wood — the straight trunk. Upright, principled and growth-driven, Jia bends only deliberately and breaks before it bends.
What it feels like at the center
With Jia (甲, Yang Wood) as your Day Master, the chart tends to read like this:
As Day Master, Jia sets a direction and expects the world to line up behind it — growth, principle, and slow, deliberate movement forward.
The personality tint it tends to leave
In everyday life, a chart with this stem at its center often reads:
principled, upright, growth-driven, slow to bend
Reading Jia in practice
Jia day masters are the trees of the chart — the trunk, not the branch; steady upward growth rather than sudden brilliance. With Jia at the center, life tends to grow by direction and patience: you do best with a goal, a road map and room to advance one season at a time. In career, Jia is built for leadership that rewards long building — founder, planner, strategist — publicly ambitious, quietly meticulous, allergic to stagnation. In relationships, Jia grows like timber: slow to settle, deeply attached once rooted, and needs someone who shares a long horizon. The gardener matters for a Jia chart: too little Water dries the growth, too much rots the roots, and sun, rain and pruning all matter. The two charts below show Jia with opposite Da Yun directions — in one, the first chapters accelerate your rise; in the other, they test it before the growth. Whichever it is, a Jia reading always asks the same question: are you planting, or just staying? Practical notes for a Jia chart: aim high but move in seasons — start ambitious, finish what the year can hold, and never confuse a long plan with a finished one. Wood grows against friction; the direction of your Da Yun decides whether the early decades push you upward or force you to grow sideways, and the charts below show both. In work, seek titles with true scope and avoid posts that cap your growth; in health, the liver and eyes ask for movement, water and early nights; in relationships, growth beats comfort every time. Choose the road that still has forest in front of it.
In two real charts
Two charts cast by the same deterministic engine that builds yours — two people with Jia (甲, Yang Wood) as Day Master, born in different years, so their Da Yun run in opposite directions. Every pillar below is real; every label is computed. Cast your own chart and you get the same treatment.
Born
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First Da Yun
Born
Gender
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First Da Yun
The full cast of ten stems
The Day Master is one of ten stems — five elements, each in a Yang and a Yin shade. Explore the others:
Build the big picture
First read Your Day Master — what the role is — then The Ten Heavenly Stems for the full set.
Traditional Chinese metaphysics is a cultural lens — educational and entertainment content, not a prediction or advice.