Day pillar type
Red Tiger (Bing Yin): Personality and Matches
Hongsimdang Editorial Team · Last updated
Red Tiger (Bing Yin) is the day pillar where the sun lighting everything from above (丙) rests on a great tree at dawn (寅). In short, it turns learning and backing into strength and grows from the roots up.
What decides the Red Tiger: 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 Tiger (Bing Yin), the day stem is 丙 (Yang Fire) and the day branch is 寅 (Tiger). The “Red” in the name is the color of the day stem’s element, and “Tiger” 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 寅 is a great tree at dawn. The Tiger is popularly pictured as bold, independent and happy to lead from the front, 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 resource pair, in which the branch feeds the stem. The branch’s element flows toward your stem the way soil feeds a plant, so learning and backing turn easily into strength, and you often feel held up from underneath. The branch 寅 also holds the hidden stems 戊, 丙, 甲, which lay another side beneath the one that shows.
Seen from your day stem 丙, the day branch 寅 sits at the Birth (Chang Sheng) stage of the twelve life stages. It is as clear as newborn energy, and candor and quick learning read as charm.
How the Red Tiger shows up at work
Study, credentials and the support of seniors or teachers turn into results for you fairly directly. You tend to wait until you feel prepared, so try putting work out at eighty percent. The gap between you and your peers can open quickly.
You come alive at launches and in new fields, and you do better with room to decide than with a list of orders to wait for. The more momentum you have, the hotter you run, and you are often the last to notice your own fatigue.
When someone takes the lead from you, irritation shows all at once, and you may feel like changing a job or a relationship on impulse.
Start fewer things, and promise yourself not to add the next one until one is finished.
How the Red Tiger shows up in relationships and love
You are drawn to people who look after you or guide you, and you are good at receiving. The more comfortable it gets, the easier it is to take that care for granted, so repay it with actions and the relationship will last.
When people rely on you, you answer in full and come across as dependable, though the urge to hold the lead tends to surface.
Someone who counts on your decisiveness and tells you straight when it is time to stop will suit you well.
How the Red Tiger handles money
Income comes most easily from knowledge, credentials, contracts or a steady backer, and building up gradually suits you better than speculating. The start may look slow, but once the base is laid you gain ground quickly.
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.
Money tends to go first into new ventures. A hit can be big, but watch the habit of moving before you have any picture of how it pays back.
Day branches that harmonize with the Red Tiger and ones that clash
The day branch of Red Tiger (Bing Yin) is 寅 (Tiger). 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tiger (寅) | Same day branch | like with like |
| Horse (午) | Triple Harmony partner | moves in the same direction, and the group is complete once a third branch joins |
| Dog (戌) | Triple Harmony partner | moves in the same direction, and the group is complete once a third branch joins |
| Pig (亥) | Six Harmony, Break | pulls together and fills in; cracks are likely |
| Snake (巳) | Punishment, Harm | rubs, so friction is likely; small misunderstandings pile up |
| Monkey (申) | Clash, Punishment | head-on opposition; rubs, so friction is likely |
| Rooster (酉) | 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 Tiger
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 Tiger 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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Frequently asked questions
How do I find out whether I am a Red Tiger?
The day of Red Tiger (Bing Yin) comes around once every 60 days, and people born on a 丙寅 day belong to this type. Enter your birth date on the day pillar type index to check.
Why am I a Red Tiger if my birth-year animal is not the Tiger?
The birth-year animal comes from the year branch, while the Tiger in Red Tiger comes from the day branch 寅. They are two separate calculations. Even if your birth year belongs to another animal, a day branch of 寅 makes your day pillar a Tiger.
Which types match the Red Tiger?
Looking only at day branches, the Six Harmony partner of 寅 is the Pig (亥), and the clash comes from the Monkey (申). That is one narrow view. How well two people fit depends on all four pillars and on how they treat each other.
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