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Carrie Lam’s BaZi chart 林郑月娥

Chief Executive of Hong Kong, 2017–2022 · born 13 May 1957, Wan Chai, Hong Kong · date source: Wikipedia

Western zodiac sign: Taurus.

No birth time has been published. The date fixes three of the four pillars; the fourth is one of twelve. Below, everything the date settles is computed, and everything that turns on the hour is cast all twelve ways — without picking one on anyone’s behalf.

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In short

Carrie Lam’s day master is Yin Wood: the Vine.

Gentle and kind, and puts roots down deep once it finds its place. The day master comes from the day of birth alone; about one person in ten shares it.

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Quick answers

What is Carrie Lam’s day master?
Yin Wood, the Vine: born on a Wood Rooster day (Yi You, 乙酉).
What is Carrie Lam’s zodiac sign?
The Rooster: born in a Fire Rooster year (Ding You, 丁酉), counted from the Start of Spring.
What is Carrie Lam’s bone weight?
4.6 liang to 5.6 liang, depending on the hour, which is not public. How it is worked out ›
Is Carrie Lam’s birth time known?
No published time, so the hour pillar is cast all twelve ways below.

Compare your chart with Carrie Lam’s

Birth dates only: day masters, day pillars and signs.

The three pillars the date fixes

Year

Eating God

丁 Yin Fire

酉 Rooster

Month

Friend

乙 Yin Wood

巳 Snake

Day

Day Master

乙 Yin Wood

酉 Rooster

Hour

 

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one of twelve — see below

What the labels mean

Each pillar is two characters: a stem on top (an element, yin or yang) and a branch below (one of the twelve zodiac animals). The day stem is the day master — the person. The label above each other stem is its ten god (Shi Shen, 十神): what that element is to the day master.

Each animal also hides stems of its own, strongest first: the Rooster hides Yin Metal (辛, Seven Killings); the Snake hides Yang Fire (丙, Hurting Officer), Yang Metal (庚, Direct Officer), Yang Earth (戊, Direct Wealth); the Rooster hides Yin Metal (辛, Seven Killings).

Eating God (Shi Shen, 食神)
What you produce, same polarity. Output that comes easily: making, feeding, expressing, without strain.
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.
Friend (Bi Jian, 比肩)
Same element, same polarity as you. A peer: someone standing where you stand, competing for the same thing and equally able to share the load.
Hurting Officer (Shang Guan, 伤官)
What you produce, opposite polarity. Output with an edge on it. The name means it injures the Direct Officer (正官), which is why the tradition reads it as talent that does not sit well with authority.
Direct Officer (Zheng Guan, 正官)
What controls you, opposite polarity. Authority in its orderly form: office, rule, the structure you fit into.
Direct Wealth (Zheng Cai, 正财)
What you control, opposite polarity. Wealth held steadily — earned, kept, accounted for.

Day master

乙 The Vine Yin Wood (Yi)
What the classic Di Tian Sui (滴天髓) says of this stem, word for word

Yin Wood (乙) though soft cuts the sheep and dismembers the ox. Holding Yin Fire (丁) and embracing Yang Fire (丙), it bestrides the phoenix and mounts the monkey. On empty wet ground, riding the horse is a worry still; but vine tied to Yang Wood (甲), it can take spring or autumn.

乙木虽柔,刲羊解牛,怀丁抱丙,跨凤乘猴,虚湿之地,骑马亦忧,藤罗系甲,可春可秋。

Born in a Snake month (Si, 巳), when Fire rules the season. In that season Yin Wood is at rest (Xiu, 休): it produced the season and its work is done. (One of five seasonal states, Wang Xiang Xiu Qiu Si, 旺相休囚死, after the San Ming Tong Hui, 三命通會, book 2.)

Day pillar: Wood Rooster (Yi You, 乙酉)

The classic San Ming Tong Hui (三命通会) gives each of the sixty day pillars an image, its sound element (Na Yin, 纳音). For this one it is Water in the Spring (泉中水), and it says:

Water in a shaded gully; likes the east, and the south.

The original Chinese

阴壑水,喜东方及南

This is what the book says of every Yi You day, not of Carrie Lam. The Yi You day pillar › (what the classic says at each birth hour, what the branch holds, and others born on one)

Elements in the six known characters

木 Wood × 2 火 Fire × 2 土 Earth × 0 金 Metal × 2 水 Water × 0

None of the six is Earth, Water. The hour pillar’s two characters may supply it or may not — that depends on the hour. Hidden stems are not counted here.

All twelve hours, cast one by one

In all twelve hours the Yin Wood day master reads weak. Whatever the hour, the support-and-restrain method favours Water, Wood — the date alone settles it.

Hour Solar time Hour pillar Its ten god Three tests Strength Favoured
Rat (子) 00–01 丙子Fire Rat Hurting Officer (伤官) out of season rooted outnumbered weak Water, Wood
Ox (丑) 01–03 丁丑Fire Ox Eating God (食神) out of season rooted outnumbered weak Water, Wood
Tiger (寅) 03–05 戊寅Earth Tiger Direct Wealth (正财) out of season rooted outnumbered weak Water, Wood
Rabbit (卯) 05–07 己卯Earth Rabbit Indirect Wealth (偏财) out of season rooted outnumbered weak Water, Wood
Dragon (辰) 07–09 庚辰Metal Dragon Direct Officer (正官) out of season rooted outnumbered weak Water, Wood
Snake (巳) 09–11 辛巳Metal Snake Seven Killings (七杀) out of season no root outnumbered weak Water, Wood
Horse (午) 11–13 壬午Water Horse Direct Resource (正印) out of season no root outnumbered weak Water, Wood
Goat (未) 13–15 癸未Water Goat Indirect Resource (偏印) out of season rooted outnumbered weak Water, Wood
Monkey (申) 15–17 甲申Wood Monkey Rob Wealth (劫财) out of season rooted outnumbered weak Water, Wood
Rooster (酉) 17–19 乙酉Wood Rooster Friend (比肩) out of season no root outnumbered weak Water, Wood
Dog (戌) 19–21 丙戌Fire Dog Hurting Officer (伤官) out of season no root outnumbered weak Water, Wood
Pig (亥) 21–23 丁亥Fire Pig Eating God (食神) out of season rooted outnumbered weak Water, Wood

Each row is exactly what the full calculator would say for a birth in that hour. Strength comes from three tests: in season (De Ling, 得令) — born in the season of the day master’s own element; rooted (De Di, 得地) — the same element hidden in a branch; backed (De Shi, 得势) — as much support around it as drain. Two of three reads strong. The favoured elements come from support and restrain (Fu Yi, 扶抑): a strong day master wants draining, a weak one wants support. There are three other methods for the useful element — climate (Tiao Hou, 调候), bridging (Tong Guan, 通關) and disease and cure (Bing Yao, 病藥) — each from its own text; see the useful god page. Hours are solar time at the birthplace, so a clock time needs correcting first; and a birth after 23:00 falls in the late Rat hour, where the two schools disagree about whether the day has turned.

Carrie Lam’s bone weight (Cheng Gu, 称骨)

Lunar date: day 14 of the 4th month, Fire Rooster year (丁酉年四月十四). Its weights: year 1.4 liang, month 0.9 liang, day 1.7 liang — 4.0 liang before the hour. Over the twelve hours that makes 4.6 liang to 5.6 liang.

Rat (子) 5.6 liang Ox (丑) 4.6 liang Tiger (寅) 4.7 liang Rabbit (卯) 5.0 liang Dragon (辰) 4.9 liang Snake (巳) 5.6 liang Horse (午) 5.0 liang Goat (未) 4.8 liang Monkey (申) 4.8 liang Rooster (酉) 4.9 liang Dog (戌) 4.6 liang Pig (亥) 4.6 liang

This date falls on a cell where one of the four published tables differs, which would move every total by 0.2 liang.

Bone weighing is a folk almanac sum over the calendar positions of the year, month, day and hour — not the elements, and not the chart above. How heavy is heavy? The tables and the spread ›

And yours?

You have your own birth time, so your chart needs no table of twelve — all four pillars, corrected to true solar time with the timezone actually in force where and when you were born.

About this page

This page computes; it does not interpret. The birth date is public and its source is linked; the birth time is not, so the hour pillar and everything that depends on it are set out all twelve ways.

Nothing here claims that anyone is who they are because of a chart, and nothing here forecasts years, health or lifespan for anyone living.

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