Ren Zi Day Pillar

壬子 · in BaZi, the Chinese Four Pillars of Destiny

Ren ZiRén WaterZǐ — RatNayin: Mulberry Wood

What Ren Zi is

Water on water: unmeasurable depth, endlessly adaptable, and prone to having no edges at all.

Its image: Mulberry Wood

Mulberry feeds silkworms — the tree draws no attention, and nothing else does its job.

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

The stem: Rén Water

Rén carries the image of a river, the open sea. That is this pillar's baseline; the branch it is paired with decides the rest.

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The branch: Zǐ, the Rat

Zǐ is Water, yang in polarity, and carries the Rat.

Hidden stems: every branch conceals stems of its own, in descending weight — Guǐ Water (100%).

How stem and branch relate

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.

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Also Mulberry Wood

Gui Chou (癸丑)

Other Rén pillars

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