Hou Yu-ih’s BaZi chart 侯友宜
Mayor of New Taipei since 2018 · born 7 June 1957, Puzi, Chiayi County, Taiwan · date source: Wikipedia
Western zodiac sign: Gemini.
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.
In short
Hou Yu-ih’s day master is Yang Metal: the Sword.
Brave and firm, and stands by what is right. The day master comes from the day of birth alone; about one person in ten shares it.
Quick answers
- What is Hou Yu-ih’s day master?
- Yang Metal, the Sword: born on a Metal Dog day (Geng Xu, 庚戌).
- What is Hou Yu-ih’s zodiac sign?
- The Rooster: born in a Fire Rooster year (Ding You, 丁酉), counted from the Start of Spring.
- What is Hou Yu-ih’s bone weight?
- 4.1 liang to 5.1 liang, depending on the hour, which is not public. How it is worked out ›
- Is Hou Yu-ih’s birth time known?
- No published time, so the hour pillar is cast all twelve ways below.
Compare your chart with Hou Yu-ih’s
Birth dates only: day masters, day pillars and signs.
The three pillars the date fixes
Year
Direct Officer
丁 Yin Fire
酉 Rooster
Month
Seven Killings
丙 Yang Fire
午 Horse
Day
Day Master
庚 Yang Metal
戌 Dog
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, Rob Wealth); the Horse hides Yin Fire (丁, Direct Officer), Yin Earth (己, Direct Resource); the Dog hides Yang Earth (戊, Indirect Resource), Yin Metal (辛, Rob Wealth), Yin Fire (丁, Direct Officer).
- Direct Officer (Zheng Guan, 正官)
- What controls you, opposite polarity. Authority in its orderly form: office, rule, the structure you fit into.
- Rob Wealth (Jie Cai, 劫财)
- Same element, opposite polarity. A peer who takes rather than shares — the tradition reads it as what draws on your resources through people close to you.
- 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.
- Direct Resource (Zheng Yin, 正印)
- What produces you, opposite polarity. Straightforward support: what teaches, shelters and backs you.
- 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).
Day master
What the classic Di Tian Sui (滴天髓) says of this stem, word for word
Yang Metal (庚) carries the killing force (Sha, 煞) and is hard and strong above all. Getting Water it is clear; getting Fire it is keen. Earth moist and it is produced; Earth dry and it is brittle. It can beat elder brother Yang Wood (甲) and loses to younger sister Yin Wood (乙).
庚金带煞，刚健为最，得水而清，得火而锐，土润则生，土干则脆，能赢甲兄，输于乙妹。
Born in a Horse month (Wu, 午), when Fire rules the season. In that season Yang Metal is dead (Si, 死): the season controls it. (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: Metal Dog (Geng Xu, 庚戌)
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 Hairpin Metal (钗钏金), and it says:
What is left of a blade; likes a little Fire, and Wood.
The original Chinese
刃剑之余，喜微火及木
This is what the book says of every Geng Xu day, not of Hou Yu-ih. The Geng Xu 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
None of the six is Wood, 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
Of the twelve hours, 1 read strong and 11 weak (strong: the Dragon hours). Strength, and the useful element that follows from it, depend on the hour — the date alone cannot settle them.
| Hour | Solar time | Hour pillar | Its ten god | Three tests | Strength | Favoured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00–01 | 丙子Fire Rat | Seven Killings (七杀) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Earth, Metal |
| Ox (丑) | 01–03 | 丁丑Fire Ox | Direct Officer (正官) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Earth, Metal |
| Tiger (寅) | 03–05 | 戊寅Earth Tiger | Indirect Resource (偏印) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Earth, Metal |
| Rabbit (卯) | 05–07 | 己卯Earth Rabbit | Direct Resource (正印) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Earth, Metal |
| Dragon (辰) | 07–09 | 庚辰Metal Dragon | Friend (比肩) | out of season rooted backed | strong | Water, Wood, Fire |
| Snake (巳) | 09–11 | 辛巳Metal Snake | Rob Wealth (劫财) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Earth, Metal |
| Horse (午) | 11–13 | 壬午Water Horse | Eating God (食神) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Earth, Metal |
| Goat (未) | 13–15 | 癸未Water Goat | Hurting Officer (伤官) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Earth, Metal |
| Monkey (申) | 15–17 | 甲申Wood Monkey | Indirect Wealth (偏财) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Earth, Metal |
| Rooster (酉) | 17–19 | 乙酉Wood Rooster | Direct Wealth (正财) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Earth, Metal |
| Dog (戌) | 19–21 | 丙戌Fire Dog | Seven Killings (七杀) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Earth, Metal |
| Pig (亥) | 21–23 | 丁亥Fire Pig | Direct Officer (正官) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Earth, Metal |
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.
Hou Yu-ih’s bone weight (Cheng Gu, 称骨)
Lunar date: day 10 of the 5th month, Fire Rooster year (丁酉年五月初十). Its weights: year 1.4 liang, month 0.5 liang, day 1.6 liang — 3.5 liang before the hour. Over the twelve hours that makes 4.1 liang to 5.1 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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