Ji-Mao Day Pillar: Ji Earth over Mao Wood, Spouse Palace Seven Killings
What are Ji-Mao people like? With Ji Earth as your Day Master, you are like a stretch of farmland that nourishes all living things, gentle and low-key in nature, with a capacity to accept others that runs far deeper than it appears. Your day branch holds Seven Killings, so you are bold, take responsibility and do your best work under pressure. In our sample of 280 Ji-Mao charts, 51.8% are weak, so most of these Day Masters lean weak and work well with support. 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 Ji-Mao pillar is therefore about the relationship between "Ji Earth the person" and "Mao the partner".
- Day Master
- Ji Earth
- Spouse palace
- Mao（Wood）
- Palace star
- Seven Killings
- Na Yin
- City Wall Earth
- Void
- Shen, You
- Zodiac
- Rabbit
What Ji-Mao people are like
The Day Master Ji Earth sets the base tone: With Ji Earth as your Day Master, you are like a stretch of farmland that nourishes all living things, gentle and low-key in nature, with a capacity to accept others that runs far deeper than it appears. You are a good listener, thoughtful and considerate, and people feel relaxed and at ease around you; almost without noticing, you often become everyone's backbone. You work practically and attentively, with no taste for the spotlight, yet you always bring what you are given to a safe and steady finish.
The day branch Mao has Seven Killings as its main qi, and that is the layer Ji-Mao adds on top of the Day Master: Sitting on the Seven Killings star brings fast decisions and a strong will; in a crisis these are the people who hold the line. The strength is action and resilience, suited to roles that lead or decide. Watch for a short fuse, resistance to being managed and high demands on self and others; slowing down by half a beat helps relationships.
Women and men: traditionally a woman's chart reads the husband star (the Officers) and a man's the wife star (Wealth). For a Ji-Mao woman, the husband star Seven Killings sits right in the spouse palace as its main qi, so a partner looms large in daily life; for a Ji-Mao man, the wife star (Wealth) is not in the spouse palace, so look to the other pillars and the luck cycles. This only describes what tends to show up in relationships; see "The spouse star of Ji-Mao 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 Ji-Mao?
Ji-Mao is the stem Ji over the branch Mao. Ji is Yin Earth and is your Day Master, standing for you; Mao 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. Mao holds 乙, which to the Day Master Ji Earth are:
The main qi carries the most weight, so the spouse palace of Ji-Mao mainly shows the face of Seven Killings; the middle and residual stems are undertones that surface when a Luck Pillar or annual pillar stirs them.
How the stem and branch of Ji-Mao relate: branch controls stem ("cut feet")
| Stem | Ji (Earth) |
|---|---|
| Main hidden stem of the branch | Yi (Wood) |
| Stem–branch relation | branch controls stem ("cut feet") |
| Life Stage on its own branch | Sickness |
| Root | none (Mao holds Yi) |
The branch element Wood turns around and controls the stem element Earth; classical texts call this "cut feet", and the Day Master sits on an Officer star. High standards, a heavy sense of duty and a habit of setting rules for oneself; pressure tends to come from the closest relationship or from rules at work, and learning to ease off often matters more than trying harder.
Ji sitting on Mao: the "Sickness" stage and the root
Sickness is momentum softening: attentive and considerate but given to overthinking; at its best with someone in its corner.
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 Ji-Mao Day Masters tend to be
| Sample | 280 charts (one per day, 1960–2005; 16,802 in all) |
|---|---|
| Strong / balanced / weak | 10.4% / 37.9% / 51.8% |
| Judged a Follow structure | 2.1% |
| Average strong share, six Ji Earth pillars | 22.5%; Ji-Mao runs 12.1 points lower — the Mao branch tends to drain the Day Master |
| Most common first useful element | Fire 72.9%, Metal 18.2% |
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 Mao pushes the Day Master. Method on Strong and Weak Day Masters.
Spouse palace in Mao: partner tendencies and how to get on
The partner：The partner is soft in looks and manner, guided by feel and attentive to small details of living. Mao is Yin Wood: the sensitivity is a gift, and the price is that an offhand remark of yours can sit with them for a long time.
Where to put the effort：Tone matters more than content; the same point phrased differently lands completely differently. They rarely fight their own corner, so ask what they actually want, or they will accommodate until they disappear.
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 Ji-Mao 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 Ji-Mao:
| Place in Mao | Reading | |
|---|---|---|
| Male chart (wife star: Wealth) | none | none of the hidden stems of Mao is a Wealth star; the spouse palace holds Seven Killings instead. That does not mean no marriage — the wife star is found in other pillars or arrives with luck cycles and years. |
| Female chart (husband star: Officer) | main stem, Seven Killings | the main hidden stem of Mao is Seven Killings, so the husband star sits right in the spouse palace and a partner has a strong presence; often forceful and bold, with a period of adjustment before things settle. |
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 Mao 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 | 2029 Ji-You |
|---|---|
| Six Harmony | 2030 Geng-Xu |
| Three Harmony | 2027 Ding-Wei, 2031 Xin-Hai |
| Punishment | 2032 Ren-Zi |
| Harm | 2036 Bing-Chen |
Heaven strikes, earth clashes: in 2065 (Yi-You) the year stem Yi attacks the Day Master Ji while the branch You clashes Mao — a once-in-sixty-years year of upheaval for this pillar.
Hidden echo (fu yin): 2059 is a Ji-Mao 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: City Wall Earth
City Wall Earth: ramparts of jade for the heavenly capital, a golden fortress for the imperial city.
The earth packed into a city wall, solid and defensible, guarding all within. Steady and dependable, principled and mindful of limits, it can shoulder responsibility and give others a sense of safety.
Each Na Yin is shared by two pillars: Ji-Mao shares City Wall Earth with Wu-Yin. 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: Shen, You
Ji-Mao belongs to the Jia-Xu decade, which never reaches the branches Shen, You; 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 Ji-Mao days and years come round
| Ji-Mao days in 2027 | Mar 1, Apr 30, Jun 29, Aug 28, Oct 27, Dec 26 |
|---|---|
| Years with Ji-Mao as year pillar | 1939, 1999 |
A day pillar returns every 60 days; the year pillar changes at Li Chun, around 4 February. To pick a Ji-Mao day for an event, check it on Date Selection.
Famous people with the Ji-Mao day pillar
No one in our celebrity series has the Ji-Mao day pillar yet; those with the same Ji Earth Day Master are:
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Ji-Mao day pillar FAQ
What is the personality of the Ji-Mao day pillar?
The Day Master Ji Earth is the subject: With Ji Earth as your Day Master, you are like a stretch of farmland that nourishes all living things, gentle and low-key in nature, with a capacity to accept others that runs far deeper than it appears. The day branch Mao is the spouse palace and stands as Seven Killings 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 Ji-Mao day pillar suggest?
The partner is soft in looks and manner, guided by feel and attentive to small details of living. Mao is Yin Wood: the sensitivity is a gift, and the price is that an offhand remark of yours can sit with them for a long time.
Is the Ji-Mao day pillar good or bad?
No day pillar is inherently good or bad. The spouse palace star of Ji-Mao is Seven Killings, 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 Ji-Mao?
Ji-Mao belongs to the Jia-Xu decade, so its void branches are Shen, You. Which pillar the void lands on, and whether it is stirred by a clash or combination, is what matters; the bare fact decides nothing.