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Gui Mao (癸卯) Day Pillar — Yin Water on the Rabbit

The Gui Mao day pillar pairs the Gui day master (Yin Water) with the Mao branch (Wood, the Rabbit). 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癸 Gui · Yin Water
Day branch卯 Mao (Rabbit) · Wood
Hidden stems乙 Yi (Eating God, main qi)
Stage of the stem hereBirth (1 of 12)
NayinGold Foil · 金箔金 (shared with Ren Yin 壬寅)
Seat relationStem generates branch (xie) — traditional term: 泄

How Gui sits on Mao

The stem generates the branch: Water flows into Wood, so the Gui day master sits on ground that continuously draws its output. Traditional wording calls this 泄 (xiè, "draining") — the self is spent into its own base. Again this is a statement of flow, not of fortune: the day master's energy has a standing outbound channel right under it, and the rest of the chart decides whether that channel is a liability or a productive one.

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Nayin: Gold Foil

Gold Foil (金箔金): metal beaten into foil — the thinnest of the metals, all surface refinement. Display versus substance is its classical tension.

The spouse palace (day branch)

In the spouse palace this is an Output (食伤) configuration: the classical reading treats the partner-side branch as the place where the Gui day master expresses rather than absorbs. The structural point — stated by the tradition, not by this site — is that intimacy here runs through expression and making. Whether that lands well in an actual relationship depends on the other seven characters, which is why this page stops at structure.

The main qi 乙 (Yi, Eating God) defines the palace's classical group: Output.

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 Mao (癸卯) day pillar?
The Gui Mao day pillar pairs the Gui stem (Yin Water) with the Mao branch (Wood). Its computed facts: hidden stems Yi (Eating God), the Gui stem at the Birth stage on this branch, seat relation "undefined", and nayin Gold Foil (金箔金).
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 Mao day pillar good or bad?
Neither, on its own. The seat relation (undefined) and the Birth 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 Gold Foil mean?
Nayin (金箔金) is a two-thousand-year-old classification that gives each PAIR of pillars a symbolic element-image — for Gui Mao it is "Gold Foil", shared with its partner pillar Ren Yin (壬寅). 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 Chou · Gui Hai

Ren Yin ←  ·  → Jia Chen

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.