Day pillar type
Blue Rooster (Yi You): Personality and Matches
Hongsimdang Editorial Team · Last updated
Blue Rooster (Yi You) is the day pillar where flowers and vines that bend with the wind (乙) rests on a jewel in autumn (酉). In short, it is polished within responsibility and structure and builds trust a little at a time.
What decides the Blue Rooster: 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 Rooster (Yi You), the day stem is 乙 (Yin Wood) and the day branch is 酉 (Rooster). The “Blue” in the name is the color of the day stem’s element, and “Rooster” is the zodiac animal of the day branch. Both are Hongsimdang’s own labels.
The day stem 乙 is likened to flowers and vines that bend with the wind. You adjust to your surroundings so smoothly that by the time anyone notices, your roots are already deep. The day branch 酉 is a jewel in autumn. The Rooster is popularly pictured as tidy, exacting and clean-lined, 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 authority pair, in which the branch presses on the stem. The branch’s element presses on your stem, so you tend to be polished within the frame of rules, responsibility and other people’s expectations. The branch 酉 also holds the hidden stems 庚, 辛, which lay another side beneath the one that shows.
Seen from your day stem 乙, the day branch 酉 sits at the Extinction (Jue) stage of the twelve life stages. It is the stage of emptying out and filling again, so life turns are large and your power to recover is strong.
How the Blue Rooster shows up at work
Your strength gets polished in settings with rules, roles and deadlines. A strong sense of responsibility means people hand you a lot, but when what you carry piles up, fatigue arrives all at once, so line up someone to hand things to early.
You do your best where finish quality, quality control or an eye for aesthetics matters, and the more attention you give to details, the more you are valued. You fit in so easily that your own standards slide to the bottom of the list, and you rarely say so when you are worn out.
When things keep falling short of your standard, criticism of yourself and everyone around you grows until you are worn out.
Set a day to put work out at eighty percent, and leave the corrections for after it is out.
How the Blue Rooster shows up in relationships and love
You are aware of your partner’s standards and of how others see you, and you work to stay proper. Your own wishes tend to get pushed back, so letting small true feelings out in daily life makes the relationship easier.
You lean toward people who are proper and polished, and with a high standard you can be hard on yourself and on them at times.
A good partner understands how high your standard runs and says a kind word even when things are not perfect.
How the Blue Rooster handles money
Fixed income and a solid system keep you stable, and discipline works as your defense. In tense periods unexpected costs tend to pile up, so keep a reserve in a separate account from the start.
Money grows best for you through connections and small openings picked up one at a time, not through a single all-in bet.
You buy only high-quality things and you are good at tidying and keeping the books, but with such a high standard, the level of spending that satisfies you tends to creep upward.
Day branches that harmonize with the Blue Rooster and ones that clash
The day branch of Blue Rooster (Yi You) is 酉 (Rooster). 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ox (丑) | Triple Harmony partner | moves in the same direction, and the group is complete once a third branch joins |
| Dragon (辰) | Six Harmony | pulls together and fills in |
| Snake (巳) | Triple Harmony partner | moves in the same direction, and the group is complete once a third branch joins |
| Rat (子) | Break | cracks are likely |
| Tiger (寅) | Resentment / Ghost Gate | attracts yet irritates |
| Rabbit (卯) | Clash | head-on opposition |
| Rooster (酉) | Self-punishment | the same habit amplifies |
| Dog (戌) | Harm | small misunderstandings pile up |
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 Rooster
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 that flows out of your day stem naturally, so giving shape step by step to what you like, or letting your expression and making spread gently, is likely this year. 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 Rooster 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 Rooster?
The day of Blue Rooster (Yi You) comes around once every 60 days, and people born on a 乙酉 day belong to this type. Enter your birth date on the day pillar type index to check.
Why am I a Blue Rooster if my birth-year animal is not the Rooster?
The birth-year animal comes from the year branch, while the Rooster in Blue Rooster comes from the day branch 酉. They are two separate calculations. Even if your birth year belongs to another animal, a day branch of 酉 makes your day pillar a Rooster.
Which types match the Blue Rooster?
Looking only at day branches, the Six Harmony partner of 酉 is the Dragon (辰), and the clash comes from the Rabbit (卯). 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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- Blue Goat (Yi Wei)
- Blue Dragon (Jia Chen)
- Blue Snake (Yi Si)
- Blue Tiger (Jia Yin)
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