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Gui Hai (癸亥) Day Pillar — Yin Water on the Pig

The Gui Hai day pillar pairs the Gui day master (Yin Water) with the Hai branch (Water, the Pig). Below: the computed facts, what the seat relation and twelve-stage position mean structurally, the nayin gloss, the classical reading of the spouse palace, and an instant lookup for your own pillar.

Computed facts (engine-verified)

This page is generated from the engine, not hand-written; structural facts reconcile against the methodology page.

Day master Gui · Yin Water
Day branch Hai (Pig) · Water
Hidden stems Ren (Rival, main qi); Jia (Hurting Officer, middle qi)
Stage of the stem hereProsperity (5 of 12)
NayinGreat Sea Water · 大海水 (shared with Ren Xu 壬戌)
Seat relationSame element (bi he) — traditional term: 比和

How Gui sits on Hai

Stem and branch share one element: Water over Water, so the Gui day master is seated on its own kind — a genuine root. The traditional name is 比和 (bǐ hé, "same kind"). Of all sixty pillars this arrangement gives the day master the most unambiguous footing: the base and the self speak the same element, for better or worse, and the rest of the chart decides which.

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Nayin: Great Sea Water

Great Sea Water (大海水): ocean water — the largest of the sixty, beyond banks and measurement. The classical reading is capacity that ordinary containers cannot hold.

The spouse palace (day branch)

In the spouse palace this is a Peers (比劫) configuration: the classical reading treats the partner-side branch as the same element as the Gui day master — a companion seat. The structural point — stated by the tradition, not by this site — is that closeness here tends to resemble friendship and side-by-side effort. Whether that sustains an actual marriage depends on the whole chart, which is precisely why this page makes no prediction.

The main qi (Ren, Rival) defines the palace's classical group: Self & Peers. Middle/residual tenants: Jia (Hurting Officer).

A note on what this page deliberately does not do: the internet is full of "60 personality types" tables that assign a fixed character to each day pillar. This site rejects that framing. A day pillar is a structural position — who sits where, on what kind of ground, with which hidden tenants. The same pillar reads differently under a different month command, and no meaningful judgement exists without the other six characters. Where the tradition offers a reading, it is labelled as the tradition's; this site's own contribution is that every number and term on this page is computed, versioned, and checkable against the methodology page.

Find your own day pillar

Birth date alone is enough — the day pillar never needs a birth time. The calculation runs in your browser; nothing is sent anywhere.

Frequently asked

What is the Gui Hai (癸亥) day pillar?
The Gui Hai day pillar pairs the Gui stem (Yin Water) with the Hai branch (Water). Its computed facts: hidden stems Ren (Rival), Jia (Hurting Officer), the Gui stem at the Prosperity stage on this branch, seat relation "undefined", and nayin Great Sea Water (大海水).
How do I find my own day pillar?
Use the calculator on this page (birth date is enough — the day pillar does not need a birth time) or the full chart calculator. Your day pillar is the third pillar of the four; each of the sixty has its own page on this site with the same computed structure.
Is the Gui Hai day pillar good or bad?
Neither, on its own. The seat relation (undefined) and the Prosperity stage describe position and flow, not fortune. A meaningful reading needs the month command and the other six characters — any source that grades pillars as lucky or unlucky is simplifying past what the system itself claims.
What does the nayin Great Sea Water mean?
Nayin (大海水) is a two-thousand-year-old classification that gives each PAIR of pillars a symbolic element-image — for Gui Hai it is "Great Sea Water", shared with its partner pillar Ren Xu (壬戌). It is a classical gloss layer, published here alongside the structural facts, never instead of them.

Nearby pillars

The other five pillars sharing this day master (Gui):

Gui You · Gui Wei · Gui Si · Gui Mao · Gui Chou

Ren Xu ←  ·  → Jia Zi

Reference index

Every enumerable component of ba zi has its own page here. Each page is computed by the same engine and can be checked item by item — none of it is a personality table.