Geng Shen Day Pillar

Metal on metal — principle reinforced by principle, right and wrong clearly separated, and not much room left over.

Pomegranate: abundant flower and fruit, arriving later in the season than everything around it.

In the sixty-pillar cycle each image is shared by exactly two pillars. 庚申 shares Pomegranate Wood with 辛酉, though the two differ in polarity, animal and hidden stems.

Gēng carries the image of unrefined metal — an axe, an ore. That is this pillar's baseline; the branch it is paired with decides the rest.

Shēn is Metal, yang in polarity, and carries the Monkey.

Hidden stems: every branch conceals stems of its own, in descending weight — Gēng Metal (60%), Rén Water (30%), Wù Earth (10%).

stem and branch share an element (Peer)

Stem and branch pull the same way, which concentrates the pillar's force. Strong-minded and hard to shift — including when shifting would help.

Note: this reads the day pillar alone. A full chart has three more pillars plus the luck cycles, and the balance is only settled by all of them together.