Lim Guan Eng’s BaZi chart 林冠英
Politician · Finance Minister, 2018–2020 · born 8 December 1960, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia · date source: Wikipedia
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
Lim Guan Eng’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.
The three pillars the date fixes
Year
Friend
庚 Yang Metal
子 Rat
Month
Indirect Resource
戊 Yang Earth
子 Rat
Day
Day Master
庚 Yang Metal
午 Horse
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 Rat hides Yin Water (癸, Hurting Officer); the Rat hides Yin Water (癸, Hurting Officer); the Horse hides Yin Fire (丁, Direct Officer), Yin Earth (己, Direct Resource).
- 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.
- 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).
- Direct Officer (Zheng Guan, 正官)
- What controls you, opposite polarity. Authority in its orderly form: office, rule, the structure you fit into.
- Direct Resource (Zheng Yin, 正印)
- What produces you, opposite polarity. Straightforward support: what teaches, shelters and backs you.
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 Rat month (Zi, 子), when Water rules the season. In that season Yang Metal 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.)
Elements in the six known characters
None of the six is Wood. 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.
Lim Guan Eng’s bone weight (Cheng Gu, 称骨)
Lunar date: day 20 of the 10th month, Metal Rat year (庚子年十月二十). Its weights: year 0.7 liang, month 0.8 liang, day 1.5 liang — 3.0 liang before the hour. Over the twelve hours that makes 3.6 liang to 4.6 liang.
This date falls on a cell where one of the four published tables differs, which would move every total by 1.1 liang.
This date falls on a cell where one of the four published tables differs, which would move every total by 0.5 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.