Xin You Day Pillar

Jewel beside jewel: exacting taste on both sides, and it only keeps what measures up. The fussiness is a form of seriousness.

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. 辛酉 shares Pomegranate Wood with 庚申, though the two differ in polarity, animal and hidden stems.

Xīn carries the image of worked metal — jade, a finished jewel. That is this pillar's baseline; the branch it is paired with decides the rest.

Yǒu is Metal, yin in polarity, and carries the Rooster.

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

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.