Green Dog · A great tree on a late-autumn ridge
Yang Wood — a tall, upright tree. You are seated on the earth energy you control — a sense of the practical world lies underfoot.
Raised in someone’s care. Optimistic and rounded, the temperament that softens the space between people.
Money in motion is seated in your inner room. Resourcefulness, scale and activity are strong here — and so is the width of what comes and goes.
The stems concealed inside 戌 (Dog). A branch is not one single energy — it holds this mixture, in these proportions across a 30-day month.
A tree that has dropped every leaf on a ridge, standing as bare frame. There is no ornament, which earns trust — and collects the misunderstanding that you are cold.
Is Jia Xu actually your day pillar?
The day pillar shifts on solar-term and zi-hour boundaries, so it is not countable by eye. Enter your birth date and the engine computes it in under a minute — free, no account.
Find my day pillar — freeYour day pillar is the stem-branch pair governing the day you were born — Jia Xu (甲戌) in this case. It rotates every day through a cycle of sixty, and the boundaries depend on solar terms and the 11pm zi-hour rule, so it is not something you can count by eye. Enter your birth date in our free reading and the engine computes it directly.
Green Dog — the image traditionally attached to it is "A great tree on a late-autumn ridge". Your Day Master 甲 (Yang Wood — a tall, upright tree) sits on 戌, the Dog, which carries Earth. In the twelve-stage cycle that position reads as Nurture, and the seated Ten God is Indirect Wealth.
No. The day pillar is two characters out of eight — your core axis, not the whole picture. The year, month and hour pillars, the balance of the five elements, and your decade luck all have to be laid on top before a reading means much. Treat a day-pillar page as the doorway, not the room.
Same sixty-cycle, different reading of the same characters. 甲戌 is romanised Jia Xu from Mandarin and gapsul from Korean, and Korean saju calls the day pillar ilju (일주). The calculation is identical; the interpretive traditions differ.
The twelve-stage position, seated Ten God and hidden stems are computed by the Ioreum deterministic engine (ruleset ioreum-2026.07). The reading itself is interpretation from the day-pillar tradition, not verified science — we always tell you which part is calculation and which part is tradition.