Geng Yin Day Pillar

An axe facing a forest: real ability to clear ground, and a habit of cutting more than needed. Efficiency is the strength, restraint is the work.

Pine and cypress keep their needles through winter; the cold is what reveals them.

In the sixty-pillar cycle each image is shared by exactly two pillars. 庚寅 shares Pine and Cypress with 辛卯, 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.

Yín is Wood, yang in polarity, and carries the Tiger.

Hidden stems: every branch conceals stems of its own, in descending weight — Jiǎ Wood (60%), Bǐng Fire (30%), Wù Earth (10%).

the stem controls the branch (Wealth)

What this pillar stands on is what it can command: practical, good with resources, and prone to treating everything as a thing to be managed.

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.