Yang Metal 庚

The blade. In Korean, 경금 gyeonggeum, the same Yang Metal. The day master that is built to cut through and has to choose what.

Element 金 Metal · Polarity Yang

What Yang Metal is

Your day master is the single character your whole chart is measured against. Yang Metal is the seventh of the ten heavenly stems, and the classical image is unworked metal, an axe or a blade: something with an edge, made for a decisive use.

Here is the part a trait list will not tell you. Yang Metal is excellent in a crisis and expensive in a calm week, because the same directness that resolves an emergency reads as a verdict when nothing is on fire. The edge does not switch off between uses. The skill is knowing which situations want cutting and which only want listening to.

How it reads in context

A day master on its own is one character out of eight. What changes the reading is the season it was born into, what else is sitting in the chart, and which decade the luck cycle has reached. Yang Metal in a supported chart and Yang Metal in a chart that fights it behave differently enough that the same advice would be wrong for one of them.

Table 01 · Yang Metal against the other stems 9 relations

Stem Ten god Everyday role

Yang Wood 甲 Open Wealth 偏财 Opportunity you have to go and get

Yin Wood 乙 Steady Wealth 正财 Return that arrives on a schedule

Yang Fire 丙 Pressure 七杀 Pressure that sharpens or overwhelms

Yin Fire 丁 Officer 正官 Structure you answer to

Yang Earth 戊 Insight 偏印 Support that arrives unasked

Yin Earth 己 Support 正印 Support you can count on

Yin Metal 辛 Rival 劫财 Someone after the same thing by a different route

Yang Water 壬 Output 食神 Output you enjoy making

Yin Water 癸 Performer 伤官 Output that wants an audience

Common questions

Notes

Does Yang Metal mean I am blunt?

It means the chart resolves things quickly, which often arrives as bluntness and is not the same as it. Whether that lands as clarity or as damage depends on what else the chart is carrying, particularly whether there is anything in it that slows a decision down.

What does Yang Metal need?

Classically, fire to shape it and water to keep the edge from going brittle. Unworked metal is only potential; what a reading looks for is whether the chart contains anything that does the working.

Have your Yang Metal chart read

Draw your four pillars free →

This page describes Yang Metal in general. A reading takes your own chart: which season your Yang Metal landed in, what stands beside it, and which decade you are in now.

BaZi Reading 八字 The four pillars read in full, with the ten gods translated into everyday roles and the luck pillars drawn as a timeline. Read the page → Korean Saju Reading 사주팔자 Your ilgan 일간, the element balance holding it up, your daeun 대운 cycles, and the sinsal worth knowing about. Every hanja translated where it sits. Read the page → Chart Legend A single sheet that decodes any BaZi chart: the stems, the branches, the five elements and the ten gods, each translated once and properly. Made to sit beside a reading. Read the page →

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Method and sources

The ten god relations on this page are computed from the stems themselves, and their plain-English names follow the classical texts listed below. Day pillars are computed with a deterministic astronomical library, never estimated.

Read against the classical commentaries on stem strength and chart structure:

滴天髓 Ditian Sui Drops of Heavenly Marrow
子平真詮 Ziping Zhenquan The True Interpretation of Ziping
淵海子平 Yuanhai Ziping The Deep Sea of Ziping
三命通會 Sanming Tonghui A Comprehensive Treatise on the Three Fates
窮通寶鑑 Qiongtong Baojian The Precious Mirror of Seasons