Day pillar type
Red Pig (Ding Hai): Personality and Matches
Hongsimdang Editorial Team · Last updated
Red Pig (Ding Hai) is the day pillar where a candle burning quietly in the dark (丁) rests on great water in winter (亥). In short, it is polished within responsibility and structure and builds trust a little at a time.
What decides the Red Pig: 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 Pig (Ding Hai), the day stem is 丁 (Yin Fire) and the day branch is 亥 (Pig). The “Red” in the name is the color of the day stem’s element, and “Pig” is the zodiac animal of the day branch. Both are Hongsimdang’s own labels.
The day stem 丁 is likened to a candle burning quietly in the dark. Instead of lighting up a crowd, you warm one person or one subject, and you do it thoroughly. The day branch 亥 is great water in winter. The Pig is popularly pictured as big-hearted, curious and deeply feeling, 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 authority pair, in which the branch presses on the stem. The branch’s element presses on your stem, so you tend to be polished within the frame of rules, responsibility and other people’s expectations. The branch 亥 also holds the hidden stems 戊, 甲, 壬, which lay another side beneath the one that shows.
Seen from your day stem 丁, the day branch 亥 sits at the Womb (Tai) stage of the twelve life stages. It is the stage of carrying new energy, where ideas, planning and a feel for possibility are cultivated.
How the Red Pig shows up at work
Your strength gets polished in settings with rules, roles and deadlines. A strong sense of responsibility means people hand you a lot, but when what you carry piles up, fatigue arrives all at once, so line up someone to hand things to early.
You produce your best results when you can immerse yourself in a subject you care about, and your ability to listen makes you the one who eases tension on a team. An offhand remark can stay with you for days, and you may wear yourself down without telling anyone.
When fatigue or low mood deepens, you sink into your feelings and put off sorting out practical matters.
Before a large expense or a promise, wait a day and talk it over with one outside person before you decide.
How the Red Pig shows up in relationships and love
You are aware of your partner’s standards and of how others see you, and you work to stay proper. Your own wishes tend to get pushed back, so letting small true feelings out in daily life makes the relationship easier.
You give generously to people you trust, but once you have fixed on a direction in your mind you tend to run straight ahead and rarely turn back.
A good partner appreciates your generosity and offers a practical view when your assumptions run ahead.
How the Red Pig handles money
Fixed income and a solid system keep you stable, and discipline works as your defense. In tense periods unexpected costs tend to pile up, so keep a reserve in a separate account from the start.
You spend where you have thought things through, and a field you have put real work into often turns into your main source of income.
You pour money generously into people and things you love, and you also bring it in, but be careful about putting in everything at once on an assumption you cannot walk back.
Day branches that harmonize with the Red Pig and ones that clash
The day branch of Red Pig (Ding Hai) is 亥 (Pig). 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Rabbit (卯) | Triple Harmony partner | moves in the same direction, and the group is complete once a third branch joins |
| Goat (未) | Triple Harmony partner | moves in the same direction, and the group is complete once a third branch joins |
| Tiger (寅) | Six Harmony, Break | pulls together and fills in; cracks are likely |
| Dragon (辰) | Resentment / Ghost Gate | attracts yet irritates |
| Snake (巳) | Clash | head-on opposition |
| Monkey (申) | Harm | small misunderstandings pile up |
| Pig (亥) | Self-punishment | the same habit amplifies |
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 Pig
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 the same kind of energy as your day stem, so people with a similar position and similar values show up more often, and moments of competing and moments of helping tend to arrive side by side. 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 Pig 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 Pig?
The day of Red Pig (Ding Hai) comes around once every 60 days, and people born on a 丁亥 day belong to this type. Enter your birth date on the day pillar type index to check.
Why am I a Red Pig if my birth-year animal is not the Pig?
The birth-year animal comes from the year branch, while the Pig in Red Pig comes from the day branch 亥. They are two separate calculations. Even if your birth year belongs to another animal, a day branch of 亥 makes your day pillar a Pig.
Which types match the Red Pig?
Looking only at day branches, the Six Harmony partner of 亥 is the Tiger (寅), and the clash comes from the Snake (巳). 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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