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Gui Si 癸巳 Day Pillar

Gui Si 癸巳 is number 30 of the sixty. The Day Master is Gui 癸, yin Water; the branch Si 巳 is Fire, zodiac Snake. Na Yin is Long-Flowing Water.

At a glance

Position in the cycle30 / 60
Day Master (stem)
Day branch
Day Master elementyinWater
Branch elementFire
ZodiacSnake
Na YinLong-Flowing Water
Hidden stemsBing 丙, Geng 庚, Wu 戊
Void branchesWu 午, Wei 未

Hidden stems and their Ten Gods

A branch is more than its surface element. Si 巳 hides Bing 丙, Geng 庚, Wu 戊; read against the Day Master Gui 癸 they give the Ten God relations below. Hidden stems are what element strength is actually judged on — counting only the four visible stems badly understates what the branches carry.

Hidden stemsDay Master elementTen God
Bing 丙FireDirect Wealth
Geng 庚MetalDirect Resource
Wu 戊EarthDirect Officer

Next Gui Si 癸巳 days

Day pillars run on a fixed 60-day cycle independent of month and year. The dates below are derived straight from the day count, so no calendar reform affects them.

Where Gui Si 癸巳 sits in a chart

The day pillar is the only one read from itself — every Ten God in the year, month and hour pillars is defined relative to the Day Master Gui 癸. Two people born in the same year and month with different day stems therefore have completely different charts. In Gui Si 癸巳 the Day Master Gui 癸 is yin Water and sits on Si 巳, which is Fire; the relation between them is Day Master controls the branch. This seat is classically read as the Day Master's immediate environment.

Related pillars

The other five pillars sharing the Day Master Gui 癸, and the other four sharing the branch Si 巳:

Same Day Master (Gui 癸)

Same branch (Si 巳)

Sources

  1. lunar-javascript (6tail, MIT) — solar-term instants, 干支 pillars, 大運/流年, 胎元/命宮/身宮 and the almanac tables.
  2. Hong Kong Observatory, Date and Time of the 24 Solar Terms — the reference used to check solar-term instants.
  3. Xieji Bianfang Shu and Sanming Tonghui — classical sources for the Wuhu Dun and Wushu Dun stem rules, hidden stems and the Ten Gods.

Algorithms last checked: 2026-07 · Method and accuracy