Red Monkey (Bing Shen): Personality and Matches

What decides the Red Monkey: 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 Monkey (Bing Shen), the day stem is 丙 (Yang Fire) and the day branch is 申 (Monkey). The “Red” in the name is the color of the day stem’s element, and “Monkey” 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 申 is metal in autumn. The Monkey is popularly pictured as quick-witted, nimble and good at juggling several things, 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 a wealth pair, in which the stem steers the branch. Your stem presses on the branch and steers it, so you tend to arrange your surroundings and resources by your own hand and go after practical results. The branch 申 also holds the hidden stems 戊, 壬, 庚, which lay another side beneath the one that shows.

Seen from your day stem 丙, the day branch 申 sits at the Illness (Bing) stage of the twelve life stages. It is the stage where energy takes a breath, and a deep empathy for other people’s pain grows.

How the Red Monkey shows up at work

You arrange the environment yourself and move numbers, people and procedures to get results. With such a strong results focus, running ahead of other people’s pace draws pushback, so think through the order in which you bring people in.

You read a situation fast, and your strength shows in scheduling, planning and improvement work that calls for improvising. The more momentum you have, the hotter you run, and you are often the last to notice your own fatigue.

When conditions stay unsettled, your attention scatters and you take up one thing after another until nothing gets finished.

Pick the one thing to keep up first, and treat the rest of your interests as time-limited trials.

How the Red Monkey shows up in relationships and love

You tend to push a relationship forward in practical ways and can be a dependable lead. If you treat your partner as something to be advanced, it feels cramped to them, so leave a gap to hear what they want before you decide.

You always have something to talk about, so conversations rarely go flat, but your interest moves quickly and you can drift away before things deepen.

Someone who enjoys change with you, and waits without blame when your interest shifts, is the best fit.

How the Red Monkey handles money

You have a keen feel for spotting openings and acting on them, and a high ability to handle money. Spread too wide and you outrun your ability to manage it, so decide in advance how far you will go.

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 spot openings and move money quickly, which suits side income and several streams of earnings, though spreading out too far makes things hard to track.

Day branches that harmonize with the Red Monkey and ones that clash

The day branch of Red Monkey (Bing Shen) is 申 (Monkey). 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.

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 Monkey

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 Monkey 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.

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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 Rooster (Ding You)
• Red Horse (Bing Wu)
• Red Goat (Ding Wei)
• Red Dragon (Bing Chen)
• Red Snake (Ding Si)

Same animal

• Black Monkey (Ren Shen)
• Blue Monkey (Jia Shen)
• Yellow Monkey (Wu Shen)
• White Monkey (Geng Shen)