Day pillar type
Yellow Pig (Ji Hai): Personality and Matches
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Yellow Pig (Ji Hai) is the day pillar where tilled fields that raise crops (己) rests on great water in winter (亥). In short, it steers a situation by hand and goes after practical results.
What decides the Yellow 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 Yellow Pig (Ji Hai), the day stem is 己 (Yin Earth) and the day branch is 亥 (Pig). The “Yellow” 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 己 is likened to tilled fields that raise crops. You are practical and detail-minded, and you do your best work tending people and projects until they grow. 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 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 亥 also holds the hidden stems 戊, 甲, 壬, which lay another side beneath the one that shows.
Seen from your day stem 己, 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 Yellow Pig 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 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. Worries tend to show up before action does, and half your energy can be gone before you begin.
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 Yellow Pig 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 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 Yellow Pig 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.
You keep careful accounts and know where daily spending leaks and where savings belong, though worry over small costs can slow a decision that really matters.
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 Yellow Pig and ones that clash
The day branch of Yellow Pig (Ji 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 Yellow 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 deepens your day stem from within, so time for relearning and digging in alone increases and ideas tend to turn unusual, though it is easy to end up carrying everything yourself. 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 Yellow 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 Yellow Pig?
The day of Yellow Pig (Ji Hai) comes around once every 60 days, and people born on a 己亥 day belong to this type. Enter your birth date on the day pillar type index to check.
Why am I a Yellow Pig if my birth-year animal is not the Pig?
The birth-year animal comes from the year branch, while the Pig in Yellow 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 Yellow 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.
See other types
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- Yellow Monkey (Wu Shen)
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