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Yi Wei 乙未 Day Pillar

Yi Wei 乙未 is number 32 of the sixty. The Day Master is Yi 乙, yin Wood; the branch Wei 未 is Earth, zodiac Goat. Na Yin is Metal in Sand and Stone.

At a glance

Position in the cycle32 / 60
Day Master (stem)
Day branch
Day Master elementyinWood
Branch elementEarth
ZodiacGoat
Na YinMetal in Sand and Stone
Hidden stemsJi 己, Ding 丁, Yi 乙
Void branchesChen 辰, Si 巳

Hidden stems and their Ten Gods

A branch is more than its surface element. Wei 未 hides Ji 己, Ding 丁, Yi 乙; read against the Day Master Yi 乙 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
Ji 己EarthIndirect Wealth
Ding 丁FireEating God
Yi 乙WoodFriend

Next Yi Wei 乙未 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 Yi Wei 乙未 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 Yi 乙. Two people born in the same year and month with different day stems therefore have completely different charts. In Yi Wei 乙未 the Day Master Yi 乙 is yin Wood and sits on Wei 未, which is Earth; 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 Yi 乙, and the other four sharing the branch Wei 未:

Same Day Master (Yi 乙)

Same branch (Wei 未)

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