七杀 · Seven Killings

qīshā · the element that controls your Day Master, of the same polarity

七杀 Seven Killings, qīshā, is one of the Ten Gods of BaZi: the name for a stem of the element that controls your Day Master, with the same polarity. For a 辛 Yin Metal Day Master, that stem is 丁 Yin Fire.

The Ten Gods are not deities. They are the ten possible relationships between your Day Master and any other stem, named for what that relationship does.

Pressure without softening. Traditionally read as challenge, ambition and authority that pushes rather than guides.

How it is worked out

Fire controls Metal, and 丁 is Yin against a Yin Day Master, so the relationship is Seven Killings. Had the stem been 丙 Yang Fire, the same relation with opposite polarity would be 正官 Direct Officer instead.

Where you meet it

• Above each pillar in the Pro chart view, naming that stem’s relationship to you.
• On Luck Pillars and annual years, where each decade and year brings its own stem.
• Inside branches, through their hidden stems.

No Ten God is good or bad on its own. What matters is whether the element it brings is one your chart wants, which is a question about the whole chart and not about the label.