What's your Day Master?

Your Day Master (日主) is the element of the day you were born: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal or Water. It describes the core of who you are.

In BaZi, the Four Pillars of Destiny, your chart has eight characters, and the Heavenly Stem of your birth day is the one that stands for you. Everything else in the chart is read in relation to it. That is why two people born in the same year, with the same zodiac animal, can have very different personalities.

1. What’s your Day Master? Your core element in Chinese astrology.
2. Think of it as the “you” in your chart: how you think, act and recharge.
3. It comes from the day you were born. Not your birth year. Not your zodiac animal.
4. Every day carries one of five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal or Water.
5. Born on a Fire day? Your Day Master is Fire: warm, expressive, lights up a room.
6. Find your Day Master with the free calculator. Just enter your birth date.

• Your Day Master is the element of the day you were born, not your year or your animal.
• It is one of Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal or Water, each in a Yang or Yin form.
• Every other part of a BaZi chart is read relative to your Day Master.

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