Yin Fire Rabbit (Ding Mao, 丁卯) day pillar
A Yin Fire day master, the Candle, sitting on the Rabbit.
Your day pillar is the pair of characters for the day you were born. The top one, the stem, is your day master — you. The bottom one, the branch, is what it sits on. The sixty pillars come round in turn, one a day, so about one person in sixty was born on a Ding Mao day.
Its sound element: Fire in the Furnace (Lu Zhong Huo, 炉中火)
The sixty pillars go in pairs, and each pair carries a sound element (Na Yin, 纳音) — an image, separate from the element of the stem. The classic San Ming Tong Hui (三命通会) describes each pillar by it:
Furnace smoke; likes the southeast, and autumn and winter.
为炉烟，喜巽地及秋冬
What the Rabbit holds, and what it is to Yin Fire
Each branch holds one to three stems. The ones under your own day master are the closest things to you in the chart.
- Yin Wood (Yi, 乙), the main one — Indirect Resource (Pian Yin, 偏印). What produces you, same polarity. Support of an indirect kind — the tradition treats it as nourishment that can also crowd out the Eating God (食神).
A Ding Mao day at each birth hour: San Ming Tong Hui (三命通会)
Two volumes of this classic go hour by hour, and at each hour say something about this exact day pillar. These are its sentences on a Ding Mao day; what it says about the other five Yin Fire days is on the Yin Fire day master page. Hours are true solar time, not clock time.
Ox hour 01:00–03:00 · Yin Metal Ox (Xin Chou, 辛丑)
Dragon (辰), Snake (巳) and Goat (未) in year or month, wealth and rank, wife and children late. Tiger (寅) and Rabbit (卯), the Resource (印) helping; a Dog (戌) vault with the self strong, punishment. Ox (丑) and Yin Fire (丁) with something to lean on, greatly noble.
辰巳未年月，富贵，妻子迟。寅卯印助，戌库身旺，刑。丑丁，得倚托，大贵。
Tiger hour 03:00–05:00 · Yang Water Tiger (Ren Yin, 壬寅)
noble, transforming favourably. Tiger (寅) and Rabbit (卯) in year or month running Metal and Water periods, greatly noble. Pig (亥) and Rat (子) months running a western period, noble.
贵化吉。寅卯年月，行金水运，大贵。亥子月，行西运，贵。
Rabbit hour 05:00–07:00 · Yin Water Rabbit (Gui Mao, 癸卯)
born in Tiger (寅) or Rabbit (卯) months, Direct Resource (印绶) carrying the Killings (煞) — not read as ill; running an officer period, conspicuously noble.
寅卯月生，印绶带煞，不为凶论；行官运，贵显。
Dragon hour 07:00–09:00 · Yang Wood Dragon (Jia Chen, 甲辰)
Dragon (辰), Dog (戌), Ox (丑) and Goat (未) months, solitary and harmed; the period running through, money comes out. An Ox month with a southern period, noble. A Rabbit (卯) month with Metal and Water periods, close to the throne with authority and rank, though unfavourable for speaking out.
辰戌丑未月，孤克，运通发财。丑月，南方运，贵。卯月，金水运，近侍权贵，不利建白。
Snake hour 09:00–11:00 · Yin Wood Snake (Yi Si, 乙巳)
spring the Resource (印), summer strength, autumn wealth, winter the officer — see which is taken for use; all may be called favourable. Horse (午) and Goat (未) in year or month, the writing noble and conspicuous, and running an officer and the prosperity star (禄) period, favourable.
春印，夏旺，秋财，冬官，看取用何如？俱可论吉。午未年月，文章贵显，行官禄运，吉。
Horse hour 11:00–13:00 · Yang Fire Horse (Bing Wu, 丙午)
calamity in the midst of strength; the Rabbit (卯) character punishes and breaks the plain Yin Fire (丁). A Snake (巳) month with a northwestern period, noble; southeastern, the highest grade with authority. Tiger (寅) and Pig (亥), a military office of the second grade. If Rat (子) and Rooster (酉) are complete, greatly noble.
旺中有灾，卯字刑破白丁。巳月。西北运，贵；东南，极品有权。寅亥，武职二品。若全子酉，大贵。
Goat hour 13:00–15:00 · Yin Fire Goat (Ding Wei, 丁未)
it comes out of the punishment. Tiger (寅) and Rabbit (卯) months, Direct Resource (印绶), money made and generous and thick. Dragon (辰), Dog (戌), Monkey (申) and Horse (午), all favourable.
刑中发。寅卯月，印绶，发财敦厚。辰戌申午，俱吉。
Monkey hour 15:00–17:00 · Yang Earth Monkey (Wu Shen, 戊申)
spring, Hurting Officer (伤官) using the Resource (印); autumn, Hurting Officer using wealth — both favourable. Summer, Friend (比肩); winter, Hurting Officer seeing the officer — ordinary. The four seasonal months, favourable.
春，伤官用印；秋，伤官用财，俱吉。夏，比肩；冬，伤官见官，平常。四季月，吉。
Rooster hour 17:00–19:00 · Yin Earth Rooster (Ji You, 己酉)
hour and day clash together — grief over wife and children; carrying Fire qi, favourable. It dislikes the Wood Rabbit (乙卯) character. Where year and month hold Pig (亥) and Goat (未), or Snake (巳) and Ox (丑), one character binding two is not read as a clash.
时日并冲，忧伤妻子，通火气吉。忌乙卯字。年月有亥未、巳丑，但一字两合，不以冲论。
Dog hour 19:00–21:00 · Yang Metal Dog (Geng Xu, 庚戌)
born with Pig (亥) or Goat (未) in year or month, the triad gathering as the Resource (印), noble. A Rat (子) month, Killings (煞) and Resource, favourable. An Established Prosperity (建禄) in year or month, a monk or priest, and it governs nobility. Where the pillars have no rescue and a strong Yin Water (癸) is seen, many suffer eye complaints; a Rooster (酉) month, not noble. Pure Rooster and Dog (戌) in year and month with Yin Earth (己) and Yang Wood (甲) showing at the stems, noble, with ill carried within it.
生亥未年月，三合会印，贵。子月，煞印，吉。年月建禄，僧道，主贵。柱无救助，见癸旺，多患目疾，酉月无贵；纯酉戌年月，天干透己甲者贵，中带凶。
Pig hour 21:00–23:00 · Yin Metal Pig (Xin Hai, 辛亥)
at the hour, wealth, officer and Resource (印) as three marvels; getting the Resource to help and the wealth to produce in year and month besides, all govern great nobility. Pure Rat (子) running Wood and Fire periods, office to the sixth grade. Snake (巳), Rooster (酉) and Ox (丑) months, the Yin Metal (辛) wealth gets its frame and then has something strong to lean on — wealth and rank both complete.
时上财官印三奇，再得年月印助财生，皆主大贵。纯子，行木火运，官可六品，巳酉丑月，辛财得局，方有倚旺，富贵双全。
The Rabbit and the other animals
When the day branch meets these — in a year, a ten-year luck period, or someone else’s chart — the classics read it by these relationships.
- Clashes with
- Rooster
- Pairs with (six harmony)
- Dog
- In a trine with
- Goat, Pig
- Punishment with
- Rat
- Harms
- Dragon
- Breaks
- Horse
The next Ding Mao days: 19 December 2026, 17 February 2027, 18 April 2027. It returns every sixty days.
Famous people born on a Ding Mao day
- Zhou Enlai First Premier of the People's Republic of China, 1949–1976
- Kim Kardashian Media personality and businesswoman
- Tunku Abdul Rahman First Prime Minister of Malaysia, 1957–1970
The Yin Fire day master · Before it: Bing Yin · After it: Wu Chen · All sixty day pillars