Blue Dog (Jia Xu): Personality and Matches

What decides the Blue Dog: 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 Dog (Jia Xu), the day stem is 甲 (Yang Wood) and the day branch is 戌 (Dog). The “Blue” in the name is the color of the day stem’s element, and “Dog” 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 戌 is dry earth and a castle wall. The Dog is popularly pictured as loyal, dutiful and protective, 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 戌 also holds the hidden stems 辛, 丁, 戊, which lay another side beneath the one that shows.

Seen from your day stem 甲, the day branch 戌 sits at the Nurture (Yang) stage of the twelve life stages. It is the stage of raising young energy, which adds a gentle strength for looking after and teaching others.

How the Blue Dog 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.

Roles that guard safety or quality, and work where keeping your word is the value, suit you, and your sense of responsibility brings you more and more to carry. 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.

When you feel betrayed you close your heart suddenly, and reopening a door once shut takes a long time.

Before you doubt a new person, hand them one small request and see how they handle it.

How the Blue Dog 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 are deeply loyal to the people you trust, but your guard is high and it takes time before you open up.

You do well with someone who keeps promises and waits, without pushing, until your guard comes down.

How the Blue Dog 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 are defensive with money and save steadily, but your weakness is lending out of loyalty to people you trust, so set a ceiling on the amount.

Day branches that harmonize with the Blue Dog and ones that clash

The day branch of Blue Dog (Jia Xu) is 戌 (Dog). 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 Blue Dog

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 enters a Punishment relation with your day branch, so stubborn standoffs with people close by are more likely, and rounding the edges of how you say things helps. Wei also forms a Break relation with your day branch, so events that call for mending what you built earlier tend to appear.

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 Dog 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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• Blue Ox (Yi Chou)
• Blue Pig (Yi Hai)
• Blue Monkey (Jia Shen)
• Blue Rooster (Yi You)
• Blue Horse (Jia Wu)
• Blue Goat (Yi Wei)
• Blue Dragon (Jia Chen)
• Blue Snake (Yi Si)
• Blue Tiger (Jia Yin)
• Blue Rabbit (Yi Mao)

Same animal

• Red Dog (Bing Xu)
• Yellow Dog (Wu Xu)
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