正官 · Direct Officer

zhèngguān · the element that controls your Day Master, of the opposite polarity

正官 Direct Officer, zhèngguān, is one of the Ten Gods of BaZi: the name for a stem of the element that controls your Day Master, with the opposite polarity. For a 辛 Yin Metal Day Master, that stem is 丙 Yang 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.

Structure, rules and an authority that is answerable rather than arbitrary. Traditionally read as responsibility, standing and being recognised by a system rather than in spite of one.

How it is worked out

Fire controls Metal, and 丙 is Yang against a Yin Day Master, so the relationship is Direct Officer. Had the stem been 丁 Yin Fire, the same relation with matching polarity would be 七杀 Seven Killings 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.