Day pillar type
Blue Dragon (Jia Chen): Personality and Matches
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Blue Dragon (Jia Chen) is the day pillar where a tall tree growing straight up (甲) rests on damp earth holding water (辰). In short, it steers a situation by hand and goes after practical results.
What decides the Blue Dragon: 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 Blue Dragon (Jia Chen), the day stem is 甲 (Yang Wood) and the day branch is 辰 (Dragon). The “Blue” in the name is the color of the day stem’s element, and “Dragon” is the zodiac animal of the day branch. Both are Hongsimdang’s own labels.
The day stem 甲 is likened to a tall tree growing straight up. Once you settle on a direction you rarely back down, and the people around you tend to end up following your lead. The day branch 辰 is damp earth holding water. The Dragon is popularly pictured as big-picture, quiet on ordinary days and able to move a whole room once in action, 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 辰 also holds the hidden stems 乙, 癸, 戊, which lay another side beneath the one that shows.
Seen from your day stem 甲, the day branch 辰 sits at the Decline (Shuai) stage of the twelve life stages. It is the mellow stage just past the peak, which gives a composure that does not hurry and a sense of weight.
How the Blue Dragon 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 suit drawing the big picture and getting people moving, and you add more value in overall design than in fine-grained tasks. That refusal to bend can cost you when a situation calls for a turn. It helps to see a mid-course change as an adjustment, not a defeat.
What you have held inside can one day come out as a big decision or an outburst.
Cut the idea into three small stages and carry out only the first one this week.
How the Blue Dragon 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.
Your scale draws people in, but you hold feelings for a long time and may let them out all at once.
Look for someone who listens to your big ideas without laughing and shares the fine practical work.
How the Blue Dragon 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 treat money like a tree you are growing: once you pick something worth backing, you keep feeding it for years. That pays off when the bet is sound, but spreading your risk tends to be the last thing you think about.
You think in terms of moving a sizable sum toward a big plan, which makes both the gains and the losses large. Investing in stages is the safer route.
Day branches that harmonize with the Blue Dragon and ones that clash
The day branch of Blue Dragon (Jia Chen) is 辰 (Dragon). 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | Triple Harmony partner | moves in the same direction, and the group is complete once a third branch joins |
| Monkey (申) | Triple Harmony partner | moves in the same direction, and the group is complete once a third branch joins |
| Rooster (酉) | Six Harmony | pulls together and fills in |
| Ox (丑) | Break | cracks are likely |
| Rabbit (卯) | Harm | small misunderstandings pile up |
| Dragon (辰) | Self-punishment | the same habit amplifies |
| Dog (戌) | Clash | head-on opposition |
| Pig (亥) | 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 Blue Dragon
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 energy by which your day stem pushes strongly outward, so your voice and your expression stand out, and so can moments when your words land hard and opinions split. 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 Blue Dragon 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 Blue Dragon?
The day of Blue Dragon (Jia Chen) comes around once every 60 days, and people born on a 甲辰 day belong to this type. Enter your birth date on the day pillar type index to check.
Why am I a Blue Dragon if my birth-year animal is not the Dragon?
The birth-year animal comes from the year branch, while the Dragon in Blue Dragon comes from the day branch 辰. They are two separate calculations. Even if your birth year belongs to another animal, a day branch of 辰 makes your day pillar a Dragon.
Which types match the Blue Dragon?
Looking only at day branches, the Six Harmony partner of 辰 is the Rooster (酉), and the clash comes from the Dog (戌). 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
Same color
- Blue Rat (Jia Zi)
- Blue Ox (Yi Chou)
- Blue Dog (Jia Xu)
- Blue Pig (Yi Hai)
- Blue Monkey (Jia Shen)
- Blue Rooster (Yi You)
- Blue Horse (Jia Wu)
- Blue Goat (Yi Wei)
- Blue Snake (Yi Si)
- Blue Tiger (Jia Yin)
- Blue Rabbit (Yi Mao)
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