Your day master is Gyeong, the seventh heavenly stem. The tradition pictures unworked metal: iron ore in rock, a boulder, an axe head. It is the hardest thing in the cycle, and it becomes useful once it has been through the forge. In your chart this character stands for you.
People with a Gyeong day master are often described as direct, loyal and strong willed. You tend to decide quickly, say things plainly and stand by your friends. You may respect people who stand up to you. Being told what to do without a reason can bring out your hardness.
Metal is shaped by fire and fed by earth. In the balance below, fire is the forge that turns you into a fine tool, earth is where the ore comes from, and water lets your edge show. Plenty of metal alone can read as all edge.
The image
Gyeong is yang metal: ore, iron, stone, the blade before it is sharpened. Autumn belongs to metal, the season of harvest and cutting back, so the tradition gives Gyeong a sense of justice and decisiveness. It is also the stem of change, since cutting clears the ground for what comes next.
Strengths
- Decisive
- Loyal
- Brave in hard moments
- Clears away what is not working
Growth edges
- Softening the delivery
- Waiting before it cuts
- Accepting help as strength
- Enjoying what is not a challenge
At work
Gyeong often does well where decisions have to be made and held: engineering, operations, emergency work, law, sport, turnaround jobs. You may like a hard problem more than a gentle one. The tradition's point is that raw ore needs fire, so pressure and a good mentor tend to bring out your best.
With other people
With people, Gyeong is often loyal to the end and blunt along the way. You may prefer honesty to comfort and show care by defending people. The growth point is warmth: letting a little of the forge's heat show.
Birth season
Autumn is metal's own season, so Gyeong born in the Monkey or Rooster months is read as very strong and in need of fire to shape it. Earth months feed metal. Summer is the forge season, read as testing but refining. Spring is when metal meets the most wood to cut, which is read as busy and demanding.
Stem combination
Gyeong combines with Eul 乙, yin wood: the axe and the vine, firmness and softness. The pair turns toward metal and is traditionally called the combination of benevolence and righteousness, a pull between gentle and decisive.
The six Gyeong day pillars
Your day master sits on one of six branches. Each pairing is its own day pillar.