庚 · Yang Metal

gēng · 庚金 · the seventh heavenly stem

庚 gēng is the seventh of the ten heavenly stems in BaZi: Yang Metal, the stem of autumn and the West. The heavenly stems are the upper half of each pillar in a chart, and the stem of the day pillar is the Day Master, the person the chart is about. 庚 combines with 乙 into Metal and clashes with 甲.

Raw metal: ore, axes, the untempered blade. Strength before refinement. People with a 庚 Day Master tend to be direct, decisive and fiercely loyal.

Readings are interpretations. Different traditions describe the same stem differently, and what a stem means in a chart depends on the company it keeps: the month it sits in, the branch beneath it and the balance of the other elements.

The facts

Element

金 Metal

Polarity

阳 Yang

Season

Autumn 秋

Direction

West 西

Combines with

乙 →金 Metal

Clashes with

甲 Yang Wood

Combination and clash are the standard stem relations the engine uses. They describe the pair, not a person.

Where you meet it

• As a Day Master, the stem of your day pillar: the person the chart is about.
• In any other pillar, where it is read through the Ten Gods relative to your Day Master.
• Hidden inside a branch: 庚 hides in 巳 Snake and 申 Monkey.

In the app, tapping any 庚 in your chart opens this entry, with one line on what it is doing in your chart. That line needs your pillars, so it is not on this page.