Geng-Yin Day Pillar: Geng Metal over Yin Wood, Spouse Palace Indirect Wealth
What are Geng-Yin people like? With Geng Metal as your Day Master, you are like a blade tempered through long forging: firm and decisive by nature, carrying a born sense of chivalry. Your day branch holds Indirect Wealth, so you are generous, sociable and good at spotting openings. In our sample of 280 Geng-Yin charts, 9.6% are strong and 47.9% weak, so strength depends on the birth month. Below: personality first, then love and how the pillar reads for women and men.
The day pillar is the closest of the four to you: the stem is you (the Day Master) and the branch is your spouse palace. The Geng-Yin pillar is therefore about the relationship between "Geng Metal the person" and "Yin the partner".
- Day Master
- Geng Metal
- Spouse palace
- Yin（Wood）
- Palace star
- Indirect Wealth
- Na Yin
- Pine and Cypress Wood
- Void
- Wu, Wei
- Zodiac
- Tiger
What Geng-Yin people are like
The Day Master Geng Metal sets the base tone: With Geng Metal as your Day Master, you are like a blade tempered through long forging: firm and decisive by nature, carrying a born sense of chivalry. You act cleanly and crisply, you hate anything drawn-out or messy, and once you have judged a situation you move, with execution among the very best of the ten Day Masters. You value loyalty and stand for right and wrong; when you see something unfair you cannot help but step in, and when a friend is in trouble you are often the first to arrive.
The day branch Yin has Indirect Wealth as its main qi, and that is the layer Geng-Yin adds on top of the Day Master: Sitting on the Indirect Wealth star brings an open manner, quick reactions and ease in company, along with a feel for trends and opportunities. The strength is adaptability and connections. Watch for a casual attitude to money, time and promises; on important matters, let someone double-check.
Women and men: traditionally a woman's chart reads the husband star (the Officers) and a man's the wife star (Wealth). For a Geng-Yin woman, the husband star Seven Killings is hidden in the spouse palace as its middle qi, so love tends to ripen later; for a Geng-Yin man, the wife star Indirect Wealth sits right in the spouse palace as its main qi, so a partner carries real weight in daily life. This only describes what tends to show up in relationships; see "The spouse star of Geng-Yin for men and women" below.
Personality is read from the whole chart; the day pillar is only its core. Two people with the same pillar can come across very differently once the month and the other pillars are added.
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What is the structure of Geng-Yin?
Geng-Yin is the stem Geng over the branch Yin. Geng is Yang Metal and is your Day Master, standing for you; Yin is Wood and sits in the day branch, which is the spouse palace. The relation between the two therefore says two things at once: the grain of the person, and their default position inside an intimate relationship.
Hidden stems and Ten Gods: where the real weight sits
Each branch holds stems that are not written on the face of the chart, yet they decide how much each Ten God actually weighs. Yin holds 甲, 丙, 戊, which to the Day Master Geng Metal are:
The main qi carries the most weight, so the spouse palace of Geng-Yin mainly shows the face of Indirect Wealth; the middle and residual stems are undertones that surface when a Luck Pillar or annual pillar stirs them.
How the stem and branch of Geng-Yin relate: stem controls branch ("capped")
| Stem | Geng (Metal) |
|---|---|
| Main hidden stem of the branch | Jia (Wood) |
| Stem–branch relation | stem controls branch ("capped") |
| Life Stage on its own branch | Extinction |
| Root | none (Yin holds Jia, Bing, Wu) |
The stem element Metal controls the branch element Wood; classical texts call this "capping", and the Day Master sits on a Wealth star. Practical, keen to keep resources and pace in its own hands, a natural manager — and in love it may take the lead without noticing, so it pays to leave the partner room to be respected.
Geng sitting on Yin: the "Extinction" stage and the root
Extinction is the old breath spent and the new not yet arrived: leaps of thought, adaptability, and a life more likely to take a few sharp turns.
The Life Stages describe the state of momentum; this site judges a strong or weak Day Master by hidden-stem roots, not by the stages. See the full cycle of every stem on Twelve Life Stages.
From our engine: how strong Geng-Yin Day Masters tend to be
| Sample | 280 charts (one per day, 1960–2005; 16,802 in all) |
|---|---|
| Strong / balanced / weak | 9.6% / 42.5% / 47.9% |
| Average strong share, six Geng Metal pillars | 21.9%; Geng-Yin runs 12.3 points lower — the Yin branch tends to drain the Day Master |
| Most common first useful element | Earth 65.7%, Metal 17.1% |
The day pillar is one pillar of four; a person’s strength still depends on the month and the whole chart. These figures show which way sitting on Yin pushes the Day Master. Method on Strong and Weak Day Masters.
Spouse palace in Yin: partner tendencies and how to get on
The partner：The partner is driven and ambitious, restless, with a lot going on outside the home. Yin is Yang Wood: growing upward is its nature, and they need a stage of their own, not only the household.
Where to put the effort：Accept the outward-facing side; insisting on constant closeness costs you both. In exchange, turn "home by when" into a clear agreement. They respect rules, and they pull further away from emotional pressure.
Worth saying plainly: the spouse palace describes a tendency, not who a person is bound to meet. It reads more like a map of the routes you take easily inside a relationship; knowing it saves a few wrong turns.
The spouse star of Geng-Yin for men and women
Traditionally a man’s wife star is Wealth and a woman’s husband star is Officer or Seven Killings; the question is whether that star sits inside the spouse palace (the day branch). For Geng-Yin:
| Place in Yin | Reading | |
|---|---|---|
| Male chart (wife star: Wealth) | main stem, Indirect Wealth | the main hidden stem of Yin is Indirect Wealth, so the wife star sits right in the spouse palace — "the wife star in its seat" in classical terms. A partner carries real weight in daily life, and settling down early is more common. |
| Female chart (husband star: Officer) | middle stem, Seven Killings | the husband star Seven Killings is hidden in the middle stem of Yin: the bond matures later, or the partner’s qualities show only after time together. |
Many modern readers look at the spouse palace as a whole regardless of gender; the spouse star is one angle and should be read with the full chart.
Years that touch the Yin spouse palace, 2026–2037
The day branch is the spouse palace. When a year’s branch clashes, combines, punishes or harms it, matters of love and home are more easily stirred. The next twelve years:
| Clash | 2028 Wu-Shen |
|---|---|
| Six Harmony | 2031 Xin-Hai |
| Three Harmony | 2026 Bing-Wu, 2030 Geng-Xu |
| Punishment | 2028 Wu-Shen, 2037 Ding-Si |
| Harm | 2037 Ding-Si |
Heaven strikes, earth clashes: in 2076 (Bing-Shen) the year stem Bing attacks the Day Master Geng while the branch Shen clashes Yin — a once-in-sixty-years year of upheaval for this pillar.
Hidden echo (fu yin): 2070 is a Geng-Yin year again, identical to the day pillar; classical texts read it as repetition and old matters returning.
A year is only a trigger; good or bad depends on the luck cycle and the whole chart, so no single year decides anything. Zodiac-by-zodiac clashes are on Tai Sui.
Na Yin: Pine and Cypress Wood
Pine and Cypress Wood: braving snow and frost, towering to the sky and covering the ground.
The pine and cypress that defy snow and frost, green through all four seasons, enduring the bitter cold. Principled and steadfast, able to bear hardship: a timber that only stands taller under pressure.
Each Na Yin is shared by two pillars: Geng-Yin shares Pine and Cypress Wood with Xin-Mao. It is a supporting layer of imagery, useful for overall flavor, but it does not override the main line set by the Day Master and the spouse palace.
Void branches: Wu, Wei
Geng-Yin belongs to the Jia-Shen decade, which never reaches the branches Wu, Wei; these are its void branches. Whatever a voided pillar stands for tends to be "present but not solid": not absent, but hard to hold, or late in arriving. In practice it matters which pillar is voided and whether it is clashed or combined; the fact alone settles nothing.
When Geng-Yin days and years come round
| Geng-Yin days in 2027 | Jan 11, Mar 12, May 11, Jul 10, Sep 8, Nov 7 |
|---|---|
| Years with Geng-Yin as year pillar | 1950, 2010 |
A day pillar returns every 60 days; the year pillar changes at Li Chun, around 4 February. To pick a Geng-Yin day for an event, check it on Date Selection.
Famous people with the Geng-Yin day pillar
These charts in our celebrity series have Geng-Yin as the day pillar; birth times and sources are in each article:
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Geng-Yin day pillar FAQ
What is the personality of the Geng-Yin day pillar?
The Day Master Geng Metal is the subject: With Geng Metal as your Day Master, you are like a blade tempered through long forging: firm and decisive by nature, carrying a born sense of chivalry. The day branch Yin is the spouse palace and stands as Indirect Wealth to the Day Master, adding a second layer. Personality is read from the whole chart; the day pillar is only its most central part.
What kind of partner does the Geng-Yin day pillar suggest?
The partner is driven and ambitious, restless, with a lot going on outside the home. Yin is Yang Wood: growing upward is its nature, and they need a stage of their own, not only the household.
Is the Geng-Yin day pillar good or bad?
No day pillar is inherently good or bad. The spouse palace star of Geng-Yin is Indirect Wealth, which names a pattern of relating, not a score. What actually decides how smoothly things run is the balance of the whole chart and the Luck Pillar, not one pillar.
What are the void branches of Geng-Yin?
Geng-Yin belongs to the Jia-Shen decade, so its void branches are Wu, Wei. Which pillar the void lands on, and whether it is stirred by a clash or combination, is what matters; the bare fact decides nothing.