Cosmic Guide

Pillar 38 of 60

Xin Chou (辛丑)

Xin Chou pairs the yin Metal stem Xin with the Earth branch Ox. A pillar can sit in any of the four positions of a chart — year, month, day or hour — and what it means depends on which.

StemXin Metal 辛 · Yin
BranchOx 丑 · Earth
DirectionNortheast
Hours1–3am

What the branch holds under this stem

Read as a day pillar, Xin is the Day Master and the stems hidden in Ox become its Ten Gods.

Hidden stemElementTen God to Xin
己 JiYin EarthIndirect Resource · The Visionary
癸 GuiYin WaterEating God · The Creator
辛 XinYin MetalFriend · The Independent

How this pillar meets others

Branch clashGoat
Six combinationRat — to Earth
TrineSnake, Rooster, Ox — Metal

Years with the Xin Chou pillar

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A year pillar is only one of four. Your day pillar — the one that carries your Day Master — needs your birth date, and the hour pillar needs your birth time.

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