Yang Water Tiger (Ren Yin, 壬寅) day pillar
A Yang Water day master, the Ocean, sitting on the Tiger.
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 Ren Yin day.
Its sound element: Gold Leaf (Jin Bo Jin, 金箔金)
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:
Metal made into ornament; likes Wood, and a little Fire.
金之华饰者，喜木及微火
What the Tiger holds, and what it is to Yang Water
Each branch holds one to three stems. The ones under your own day master are the closest things to you in the chart.
- Yang Wood (Jia, 甲), the main one — Eating God (Shi Shen, 食神). What you produce, same polarity. Output that comes easily: making, feeding, expressing, without strain.
- Yang Fire (Bing, 丙) — Indirect Wealth (Pian Cai, 偏财). What you control, same polarity. Wealth that comes sideways rather than by salary — the uneven kind.
- Yang Earth (Wu, 戊) — Seven Killings (Qi Sha, 七杀). What controls you, same polarity. Pressure with nothing softening it: demand, risk, and whatever you answer to whether you chose it or not.
A Ren Yin 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 Ren Yin day; what it says about the other five Yang Water days is on the Yang Water day master page. Hours are true solar time, not clock time.
Rat hour 23:00–01:00 · Yang Metal Rat (Geng Zi, 庚子)
noble and punished. Dragon (辰), Dog (戌), Ox (丑) and Goat (未) months, mixed-qi wealth and officer; Snake (巳), Monkey (申) and Rooster (酉) months, Direct Resource (印绶) — both noble. It dislikes a Wood Snake (乙巳) month, taking punishment; a Fire Rooster (丁酉) month, great ruin, the ancestors and a bad death; a Wood Pig (乙亥) month, punishment.
贵而刑。辰戌丑未月，杂气财官；巳申酉月，印绶，俱贵。忌乙巳月受刑，丁酉月大破，祖恶死，乙亥月刑。
Ox hour 01:00–03:00 · Yin Metal Ox (Xin Chou, 辛丑)
an Ox (丑) month, mixed-qi Direct Resource (印绶), high. Dragon (辰) and Snake (巳), the Killings (煞) strong with nothing to check it, wealth and officer with the self weak, hardship.
丑月，杂气印绶高。辰巳，煞强无制伏，财官身弱，辛苦。
Tiger hour 03:00–05:00 · Yang Water Tiger (Ren Yin, 壬寅)
the Yang Water heading for Gen (壬趋艮) pattern; where Earth (土) is thick, the hills bright and the waters fine, gold at the waist and purple robes. Snake (巳) and Pig (亥) in year or month, a military office of the third grade, rich, thick, pure and sincere. A Tiger (寅) year and Horse (午) month running a northern period, gold and purple. A Snake month with a northwestern period, noble. Dragon (辰), Dog (戌), Ox (丑) and Goat (未), also favourable. Pure Tiger, better still. One account says noble in middle age, a great crisis after fifty.
壬趋艮格，土厚地方，山明水秀，腰金衣紫。巳亥年月，武职三品，富厚纯笃。寅年午月，行北运，金紫。巳月，行西北运，贵。辰戌丑未，亦吉。纯寅尤吉。一云中年贵，五十后大厄。
Rabbit hour 05:00–07:00 · Yin Water Rabbit (Gui Mao, 癸卯)
turning from wealth and spoiling the prosperity star (禄), now rising and now falling. A Rat (子) year or month, noble. A Snake (巳) month — though wealth and officer are punished, still noble. Dragon (辰), Dog (戌), Ox (丑) and Goat (未), officer and Killings (煞) checking the blade, all favourable.
背财败禄，或兴或废。子年月，贵。巳月，财官虽刑，亦贵。辰戌丑未，官煞制刃，俱吉。
Dragon hour 07:00–09:00 · Yang Wood Dragon (Jia Chen, 甲辰)
a Snake (巳) month, the Seven Killings (偏官) pattern; not clashed and not broken, conspicuously noble. Horse (午), Direct Officer (正官), noble. Dragon (辰) and Rabbit (卯) with the frame complete, an eastern quarter, passing the examinations young, glory and nobility.
巳月偏官格，不冲不破，贵显。午，正官，贵。辰卯局全，东方，少年登科，荣贵。
Snake hour 09:00–11:00 · Yin Wood Snake (Yi Si, 乙巳)
solitary and high, punishing the wife and harming the children; as a monk or priest, wealth and rank.
孤高，刑妻克子，如为僧道，富贵。
Horse hour 11:00–13:00 · Yang Fire Horse (Bing Wu, 丙午)
Tiger (寅), Horse (午) and Dog (戌) months, the wealth-star pattern, but it dislikes the self weak; a monk or priest suits it, favourable. Born in autumn, Direct Resource (印绶). Winter, the self strong, running Metal and Fire periods, gold and purple.
寅午戌月，财星格，但嫌身弱，宜僧道，吉。秋生，印绶。冬，身旺，行金火运，金紫。
Goat hour 13:00–15:00 · Yin Fire Goat (Ding Wei, 丁未)
Yin Fire (丁) and Yang Water (壬) transforming to Wood; Pig (亥), Rabbit (卯), Goat (未) and a Tiger (寅) month, noble.
丁壬化木，亥卯未，寅月，贵。
Monkey hour 15:00–17:00 · Yang Earth Monkey (Wu Shen, 戊申)
hour and day clash each other; the self solitary, as a monk or priest, favourable. As with Tiger (寅), Horse (午) and Dog (戌), or pure Dragon (辰) in year and month, also noble.
时日相冲，身孤为僧道，吉。如寅午戌或纯辰年月，亦贵。
Rooster hour 17:00–19:00 · Yin Earth Rooster (Ji You, 己酉)
greatly wealthy and noble, glad to carry Water qi, running an officer period, noble. But fond of flowers and wine, a gallant sort.
大富贵，喜通水气，行官运，贵。但好花酒，风流人物。
Dog hour 19:00–21:00 · Yang Metal Dog (Geng Xu, 庚戌)
punishing the wife and harming the children. If born in spring, middling; summer and winter, favourable. Dragon (辰), Ox (丑) and Goat (未) months, noble.
刑妻克子。若春生，平，夏、冬，吉。辰丑未月，贵。
Pig hour 21:00–23:00 · Yin Metal Pig (Xin Hai, 辛亥)
it comes out in the midst of hardship. A Goat (未) month, mixed-qi wealth and officer, generous and thick, noble in middle age, ending after fifty. A Pig (亥) month with a southeastern period, a regional post.
艰难中发。未月，杂气财官，敦厚，中年贵，五十后终。亥月，东南运，方面。
The Tiger 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
- Monkey
- Pairs with (six harmony)
- Pig
- In a trine with
- Horse, Dog
- Punishment with
- Snake, Monkey
- Harms
- Snake
- Breaks
- Pig
The next Ren Yin days: 24 November 2026, 23 January 2027, 24 March 2027. It returns every sixty days.
Famous people born on a Ren Yin day
- Yang Chen-Ning Physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics, 1957
The Yang Water day master · Before it: Xin Chou · After it: Gui Mao · All sixty day pillars