壬 · Yang Water

rén · 壬水 · the ninth heavenly stem

壬 rén is the ninth of the ten heavenly stems in BaZi: Yang Water, the stem of winter and the North. 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. 壬 combines with 丁 into Wood and clashes with 丙.

Open water: the river and the sea, always moving. Where 癸 is rain, 壬 is the current. People with a 壬 Day Master tend to be resourceful, restless and far-seeing.

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

水 Water

Polarity

阳 Yang

Season

Winter 冬

Direction

North 北

Combines with

丁 →木 Wood

Clashes with

丙 Yang Fire

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: 壬 hides in 申 Monkey and 亥 Pig.

In the app, tapping any 壬 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.