Day pillar type
White Pig (Xin Hai): Personality and Matches
Hongsimdang Editorial Team · Last updated
White Pig (Xin Hai) is the day pillar where a jewel that shines the more it is polished (辛) rests on great water in winter (亥). In short, it sends inner strength outward and gives it a form others can receive.
What decides the White 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 White Pig (Xin Hai), the day stem is 辛 (Yin Metal) and the day branch is 亥 (Pig). The “White” 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 辛 is likened to a jewel that shines the more it is polished. You are refined, with a strong sense of beauty and real care for how every detail turns out. 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 an output pair, in which the stem pours into the branch. Your stem’s strength flows out toward the branch, so what you carry inside naturally wants to be expressed and given a form. 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 辛, the day branch 亥 sits at the Bath (Mu Yu) stage of the twelve life stages. It is the stage of washing and dressing up, where your senses and charm are cultivated and a taste for change comes along.
How the White Pig shows up at work
Your strength goes out as expression, skill and teaching, so your standing tends to follow the volume and quality of what you produce. Producing nonstop also wears you out faster, so schedule recovery time from the start.
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. Wanting one more round of polish, you can keep pushing back the moment you publish or commit.
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 White Pig shows up in relationships and love
You tend to be the one who gives, through words, gifts and attention. Before you start feeling that nothing comes back, say specifically what you want. The relationship will be steadier for it.
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 White Pig handles money
What you make or express easily turns into income, so talent converts straight into earnings. Money also leaves quickly, so set aside a share the moment it comes in.
You buy on quality rather than price. The thing to watch is spending that creeps up for the sake of appearances or ideals, so set a ceiling in advance.
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 White Pig and ones that clash
The day branch of White Pig (Xin 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 White 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 sets tasks and pressure on your day stem from outside. Responsibility and deadlines grow, but so does the strength you build through training. 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 White 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 White Pig?
The day of White Pig (Xin Hai) comes around once every 60 days, and people born on a 辛亥 day belong to this type. Enter your birth date on the day pillar type index to check.
Why am I a White Pig if my birth-year animal is not the Pig?
The birth-year animal comes from the year branch, while the Pig in White 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 White 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.
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- White Ox (Xin Chou)
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