일주 · Day pillar
Yang Water over the Horse
壬午 · 임오일주
One of the six Open Sea days
Your day pillar is the day you were born, written as two characters: Water on top for you, and the Horse underneath for what you’re sitting on. Of the four pillars in a Saju chart, this is the one that stands for you and the person next to you, which is why a reader looks at it first. There are sixty in all, and this is one of them.
Steam rising off the sea at noon
You’re Yang Water over the Horse — water meeting fire. There’s warmth and coolness in you at once, and a charming, restless energy that pulls people in.
You’re practical about money and romantic about life, which is an interesting combination to live with.
The Saju bit · the traditional reasoning
The day you were born gives you Yang Water over the Horse, written 壬午 and called 임오일주 in Korean. The top half is the Day Master, the character that stands for you, and it reads as the open sea: deep, always moving, and hard to hold in one place.
Warm charm and steady money sense
In practice you’re sociable, attractive and sensible with money, with emotions that can swing between hot and cool.
The Saju bit · the traditional reasoning
You’re sitting on the Direct Wealth star , the star of money that’s earned and kept, at the Conception stage , where potential is still forming. You have good practical instincts about money and resources, and a lot of possibility still taking shape.
You sit on what you manage
The animal under your Day Master is the money-and-opportunity side of a chart, which traditionally makes this a capable seat for practical life: you handle what’s in front of you and you’d rather sort it out yourself than delegate it.
In older readings this seat is also a straightforward marriage indicator, especially in a man’s chart. In modern terms it says the practical side of living together tends to fall to you, and works best when that’s agreed rather than assumed.
This pillar sits at the conception stage, where something exists but hasn’t taken shape. It reads as potential and imagination, with a tendency to keep options open long past the point of deciding.
The Saju bit · the traditional reasoning
The seat is the Steady rewards star , read from the main hidden stem of the Horse, and the life stage is 태.
Water sitting on Fire
Water sitting on Fire sits on what it can handle, since Water controls Fire. Traditionally that’s read as money and the things you look after, and in practice it’s someone capable who would rather do it themselves than trust it to anyone else.
The Horse is a Fire animal, which is where that comes from. It’s the same for every Yang Water over the Horse, whatever else is in the chart.
Is this you?
Your day pillar comes from your exact date of birth, and nobody can work it out in their head. Put your birthday in and we’ll tell you which of the sixty you are, free, along with the rest of your chart: your elements, what you’re missing, and the part of you people notice first.
What the full reading adds for this pillar
- You’re into it, then you’re not, then you’re very into it
- Warmth with good sense
- Easy-going outside, pulled two ways inside
- Find your steady temperature
Readings are for entertainment and self-reflection only.