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Gui You 癸酉 Day Pillar

Gui You 癸酉 is number 10 of the sixty. The Day Master is Gui 癸, yin Water; the branch You 酉 is Metal, zodiac Rooster. Na Yin is Gold of the Sword Edge.

At a glance

Position in the cycle10 / 60
Day Master (stem)
Day branch
Day Master elementyinWater
Branch elementMetal
ZodiacRooster
Na YinGold of the Sword Edge
Hidden stemsXin 辛
Void branchesXu 戌, Hai 亥

Hidden stems and their Ten Gods

A branch is more than its surface element. You 酉 hides Xin 辛; 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
Xin 辛MetalIndirect Resource

Next Gui You 癸酉 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 You 癸酉 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 You 癸酉 the Day Master Gui 癸 is yin Water and sits on You 酉, which is Metal; the relation between them is branch produces the Day Master. 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 You 酉:

Same Day Master (Gui 癸)

Same branch (You 酉)

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