Day pillar type
Red Dragon (Bing Chen): Personality and Matches
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Red Dragon (Bing Chen) is the day pillar where the sun lighting everything from above (丙) rests on damp earth holding water (辰). In short, it sends inner strength outward and gives it a form others can receive.
What decides the Red Dragon: day stem and day branch
Your day pillar is the stem and branch of the day you were born: the upper character is the day stem and the lower one is the day branch. For Red Dragon (Bing Chen), the day stem is 丙 (Yang Fire) and the day branch is 辰 (Dragon). The “Red” in the name is the color of the day stem’s element, and “Dragon” is the zodiac animal of the day branch. Both are Hongsimdang’s own labels.
The day stem 丙 is likened to the sun lighting everything from above. You are not good at hiding what you feel, and a room tends to brighten when you walk in. The day branch 辰 is damp earth holding water. The Dragon is popularly pictured as big-picture, quiet on ordinary days and able to move a whole room once in action, but that is the folk image of the zodiac. The actual reading comes from the element relationship and life stage that follow.
Read as elements, your stem and branch form an output pair, in which the stem pours into the branch. Your stem’s strength flows out toward the branch, so what you carry inside naturally wants to be expressed and given a form. The branch 辰 also holds the hidden stems 乙, 癸, 戊, which lay another side beneath the one that shows.
Seen from your day stem 丙, the day branch 辰 sits at the Crown (Guan Dai) stage of the twelve life stages. It is the stage of putting on your clothes to go out, so confidence and opinions show readily on the outside.
How the Red Dragon shows up at work
Your strength goes out as expression, skill and teaching, so your standing tends to follow the volume and quality of what you produce. Producing nonstop also wears you out faster, so schedule recovery time from the start.
You suit drawing the big picture and getting people moving, and you add more value in overall design than in fine-grained tasks. The more momentum you have, the hotter you run, and you are often the last to notice your own fatigue.
What you have held inside can one day come out as a big decision or an outburst.
Cut the idea into three small stages and carry out only the first one this week.
How the Red Dragon shows up in relationships and love
You tend to be the one who gives, through words, gifts and attention. Before you start feeling that nothing comes back, say specifically what you want. The relationship will be steadier for it.
Your scale draws people in, but you hold feelings for a long time and may let them out all at once.
Look for someone who listens to your big ideas without laughing and shares the fine practical work.
How the Red Dragon handles money
What you make or express easily turns into income, so talent converts straight into earnings. Money also leaves quickly, so set aside a share the moment it comes in.
Money comes in fast and goes out generously. The generosity earns you goodwill, but unless you set a share aside first, there is often little left at the end of the month.
You think in terms of moving a sizable sum toward a big plan, which makes both the gains and the losses large. Investing in stages is the safer route.
Day branches that harmonize with the Red Dragon and ones that clash
The day branch of Red Dragon (Bing Chen) is 辰 (Dragon). Which day branch the other person has decides the relation between your two branches, as shown below. A day branch that is not listed has no direct harmony or clash with yours.
| Their day branch | Relation between branches | How it reads |
|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | Triple Harmony partner | moves in the same direction, and the group is complete once a third branch joins |
| Monkey (申) | Triple Harmony partner | moves in the same direction, and the group is complete once a third branch joins |
| Rooster (酉) | Six Harmony | pulls together and fills in |
| Ox (丑) | Break | cracks are likely |
| Rabbit (卯) | Harm | small misunderstandings pile up |
| Dragon (辰) | Self-punishment | the same habit amplifies |
| Dog (戌) | Clash | head-on opposition |
| Pig (亥) | Resentment / Ghost Gate | attracts yet irritates |
Harmony, Clash, Punishment, Harm, Break and Resentment are relations fixed mechanically by the pair of branches. They say nothing about anyone’s character being better or worse.
2027 (Ding Wei year) and the Red Dragon
2027 is a Ding Wei year. The year’s stem and branch change over at the start of spring, around February 4, 2027. The Ding of 2027 is Fire like your day stem but with the opposite polarity, so you are more likely to share, or fight over, results and openings with people in a similar position. The year branch Wei has no direct Six Harmony or Clash with your day branch, so the color of this year shows mainly in its relation to your day stem.
What the day pillar alone cannot tell you
The day pillar is one of the four pillars of a chart. The year, month and hour pillars, the ten-year luck cycles, and Zi Wei Dou Shu and Western astrology readings are not included on this page. Two people with the same Red Dragon can show it differently depending on their other pillars, and your day pillar alone does not settle personality or fate.
To see all four pillars, use the free BaZi calculator. To read a specific question through to timing, a personal reading is the next step.
See the whole chart with the free BaZi calculator →Personal readings →Day Pillar Types →
Frequently asked questions
How do I find out whether I am a Red Dragon?
The day of Red Dragon (Bing Chen) comes around once every 60 days, and people born on a 丙辰 day belong to this type. Enter your birth date on the day pillar type index to check.
Why am I a Red Dragon if my birth-year animal is not the Dragon?
The birth-year animal comes from the year branch, while the Dragon in Red Dragon comes from the day branch 辰. They are two separate calculations. Even if your birth year belongs to another animal, a day branch of 辰 makes your day pillar a Dragon.
Which types match the Red Dragon?
Looking only at day branches, the Six Harmony partner of 辰 is the Rooster (酉), and the clash comes from the Dog (戌). That is one narrow view. How well two people fit depends on all four pillars and on how they treat each other.
See other types
Same color
- Red Tiger (Bing Yin)
- Red Rabbit (Ding Mao)
- Red Rat (Bing Zi)
- Red Ox (Ding Chou)
- Red Dog (Bing Xu)
- Red Pig (Ding Hai)
- Red Monkey (Bing Shen)
- Red Rooster (Ding You)
- Red Horse (Bing Wu)
- Red Goat (Ding Wei)
- Red Snake (Ding Si)
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