Day pillar type
Black Rooster (Gui You): Personality and Matches
Hongsimdang Editorial Team · Last updated
Black Rooster (Gui You) is the day pillar where rain and mist that seep in quietly (癸) rests on a jewel in autumn (酉). In short, it turns learning and backing into strength and grows from the roots up.
What decides the Black Rooster: 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 Black Rooster (Gui You), the day stem is 癸 (Yin Water) and the day branch is 酉 (Rooster). The “Black” in the name is the color of the day stem’s element, and “Rooster” is the zodiac animal of the day branch. Both are Hongsimdang’s own labels.
The day stem 癸 is likened to rain and mist that seep in quietly. You say little and keep watching, and by the time you speak you have usually reached the heart of the matter. The day branch 酉 is a jewel in autumn. The Rooster is popularly pictured as tidy, exacting and clean-lined, 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 酉 also holds the hidden stems 庚, 辛, which lay another side beneath the one that shows.
Seen from your day stem 癸, the day branch 酉 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 Black Rooster 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 do your best where finish quality, quality control or an eye for aesthetics matters, and the more attention you give to details, the more you are valued. Until you feel sure, you can hide for too long, or keep putting off the first step.
When things keep falling short of your standard, criticism of yourself and everyone around you grows until you are worn out.
Set a day to put work out at eighty percent, and leave the corrections for after it is out.
How the Black Rooster 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.
You lean toward people who are proper and polished, and with a high standard you can be hard on yourself and on them at times.
A good partner understands how high your standard runs and says a kind word even when things are not perfect.
How the Black Rooster 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.
You save quietly, bit by bit, and gather information before you act, so big mistakes are rare. The cost is that you sometimes let a good opening pass.
You buy only high-quality things and you are good at tidying and keeping the books, but with such a high standard, the level of spending that satisfies you tends to creep upward.
Day branches that harmonize with the Black Rooster and ones that clash
The day branch of Black Rooster (Gui You) is 酉 (Rooster). 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ox (丑) | Triple Harmony partner | moves in the same direction, and the group is complete once a third branch joins |
| Dragon (辰) | Six Harmony | pulls together and fills in |
| Snake (巳) | Triple Harmony partner | moves in the same direction, and the group is complete once a third branch joins |
| Rat (子) | Break | cracks are likely |
| Tiger (寅) | Resentment / Ghost Gate | attracts yet irritates |
| Rabbit (卯) | Clash | head-on opposition |
| Rooster (酉) | Self-punishment | the same habit amplifies |
| Dog (戌) | Harm | small misunderstandings pile up |
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 Black Rooster
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 money and openings your day stem steers. The amounts and range that move tend to widen, and your eye for managing what comes in and goes out is tested. 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 Black Rooster 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 Black Rooster?
The day of Black Rooster (Gui You) comes around once every 60 days, and people born on a 癸酉 day belong to this type. Enter your birth date on the day pillar type index to check.
Why am I a Black Rooster if my birth-year animal is not the Rooster?
The birth-year animal comes from the year branch, while the Rooster in Black Rooster comes from the day branch 酉. They are two separate calculations. Even if your birth year belongs to another animal, a day branch of 酉 makes your day pillar a Rooster.
Which types match the Black Rooster?
Looking only at day branches, the Six Harmony partner of 酉 is the Dragon (辰), and the clash comes from the Rabbit (卯). 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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