White Monkey (Geng Shen): Personality and Matches

What decides the White 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 White Monkey (Geng Shen), the day stem is 庚 (Yang Metal) and the day branch is 申 (Monkey). The “White” 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 庚 is likened to forged iron and an axe. You cut through hesitation and sort what to keep from what to drop. 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 matching pair, with the same element on both sides. Because your day stem and day branch point at the same element, the face you show and what you feel inside tend to agree, and your center is hard to shake. 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 庚, the day branch 申 sits at the Prosperity (Jian Lu) stage of the twelve life stages. It is the stage of earning your own living, so independence and practical reserves are stable.

How the White Monkey shows up at work

Your stem and branch pull the same way, so once a direction is set you rarely hesitate, and you work best where roles are clear. You are more likely to clash with a boss who rewrites the plan midstream, or a workplace whose standards change from day to day.

You read a situation fast, and your strength shows in scheduling, planning and improvement work that calls for improvising. Your words and decisions come out sharp and quick, and the other person may put up a guard before you have finished.

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 White Monkey shows up in relationships and love

What you show and what you feel sit close together, so affection and irritation both tend to appear on your face. Because your will runs in one direction, someone just as stubborn can turn things into a contest. A partner who can say “let’s pause for a moment” is more likely to last.

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 White Monkey handles money

Your spending follows your convictions, and you will put a sizable sum behind anything you believe in. With joint investments or loans, being that invested makes it hard to stay detached, so agree on the rules in advance.

You are clear-cut about money. You take a loss early rather than drag it out, and you do not let feelings stretch a bad deal, though lending on goodwill alone makes you uneasy.

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 White Monkey and ones that clash

The day branch of White Monkey (Geng 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 White 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 gives your day stem a frame of role and evaluation, so there are more moments when your position and credibility are asked about, and you put things in order within the rules. 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 White 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

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• White Tiger (Geng Yin)
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• White Rat (Geng Zi)
• White Ox (Xin Chou)
• White Dog (Geng Xu)
• White Pig (Xin Hai)
• White Rooster (Xin You)

Same animal

• Black Monkey (Ren Shen)
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