Day pillar type
Blue Tiger (Jia Yin): Personality and Matches
Hongsimdang Editorial Team · Last updated
Blue Tiger (Jia Yin) is the day pillar where a tall tree growing straight up (甲) rests on a great tree at dawn (寅). In short, it holds steady at the center and heads straight in the direction you choose.
What decides the Blue Tiger: 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 Tiger (Jia Yin), the day stem is 甲 (Yang Wood) and the day branch is 寅 (Tiger). The “Blue” in the name is the color of the day stem’s element, and “Tiger” 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 寅 is a great tree at dawn. The Tiger is popularly pictured as bold, independent and happy to lead from the front, 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 寅 also holds the hidden stems 戊, 丙, 甲, which lay another side beneath the one that shows.
Seen from your day stem 甲, the day branch 寅 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 Blue Tiger 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 come alive at launches and in new fields, and you do better with room to decide than with a list of orders to wait for. 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 someone takes the lead from you, irritation shows all at once, and you may feel like changing a job or a relationship on impulse.
Start fewer things, and promise yourself not to add the next one until one is finished.
How the Blue Tiger 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.
When people rely on you, you answer in full and come across as dependable, though the urge to hold the lead tends to surface.
Someone who counts on your decisiveness and tells you straight when it is time to stop will suit you well.
How the Blue Tiger 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 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.
Money tends to go first into new ventures. A hit can be big, but watch the habit of moving before you have any picture of how it pays back.
Day branches that harmonize with the Blue Tiger and ones that clash
The day branch of Blue Tiger (Jia Yin) is 寅 (Tiger). 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tiger (寅) | Same day branch | like with like |
| Horse (午) | Triple Harmony partner | moves in the same direction, and the group is complete once a third branch joins |
| Dog (戌) | Triple Harmony partner | moves in the same direction, and the group is complete once a third branch joins |
| Pig (亥) | Six Harmony, Break | pulls together and fills in; cracks are likely |
| Snake (巳) | Punishment, Harm | rubs, so friction is likely; small misunderstandings pile up |
| Monkey (申) | Clash, Punishment | head-on opposition; rubs, so friction is likely |
| Rooster (酉) | 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 Tiger
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 Tiger 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 Tiger?
The day of Blue Tiger (Jia Yin) comes around once every 60 days, and people born on a 甲寅 day belong to this type. Enter your birth date on the day pillar type index to check.
Why am I a Blue Tiger if my birth-year animal is not the Tiger?
The birth-year animal comes from the year branch, while the Tiger in Blue Tiger comes from the day branch 寅. They are two separate calculations. Even if your birth year belongs to another animal, a day branch of 寅 makes your day pillar a Tiger.
Which types match the Blue Tiger?
Looking only at day branches, the Six Harmony partner of 寅 is the Pig (亥), and the clash comes from the Monkey (申). 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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- Blue Rooster (Yi You)
- Blue Horse (Jia Wu)
- Blue Goat (Yi Wei)
- Blue Dragon (Jia Chen)
- Blue Snake (Yi Si)
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