辛 · Yin Metal

xīn · 辛金 · the eighth heavenly stem

辛 xīn is the eighth of the ten heavenly stems in BaZi: Yin 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. 辛 combines with 丙 into Water and clashes with 乙.

Refined, worked metal: jewellery, a needle, a fine blade. Where 庚 Yang Metal is ore and axes, 辛 is what the ore becomes after polishing. People with a 辛 Day Master tend to be precise, image-conscious and quietly proud of their standards.

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

阴 Yin

Season

Autumn 秋

Direction

West 西

Combines with

丙 →水 Water

Clashes with

乙 Yin 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: 辛 hides in 丑 Ox, 酉 Rooster and 戌 Dog.

In the app, tapping any 辛 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.