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庚申 Geng Shen Day Pillar: Solid steel rock

By Data Saju · Published October 3, 2026 · Updated November 5, 2026

Geng Shen is hard metal (庚) on the metal of autumn (申). Stem and branch are both Metal and the day branch is the Day Master's own Prosperity branch — the hardest Metal of all sixty pillars.

At a glance

Personality

Upright and loyal, quick to decide and strong in action. Sitting on a Friend, you are very independent, and an Eating God (壬) and Indirect Resource (戊) in 申 add execution and strategy. Right and wrong are clear to you and you cannot stand injustice.

Love and partner

With a Friend in the spouse palace, you want an equal, loyal relationship. You speak bluntly, which can hurt, so soften your words once. You take responsibility for a bond to the very end.

Work and money

Work that needs decisiveness and execution suits you: the military or police, technology, sport, law, management. Money comes as much as you pioneer, but watch money that goes out for loyalty's sake.

Cautions and advice

Metal too hard can snap. Accept the advice and rules that shape you, like Fire, and you become a fine sword. Put off hasty decisions by a day.

Day pillars that click, and day pillars that clash

Stems and branches both combine: 乙巳 Yi Si. With a stem combination and a Six Harmony at once (天合地合), these pairs are drawn to each other and mesh naturally.

Stems and branches both clash: 丙寅 Bing Yin, 甲寅 Jia Yin. The branches clash and the stems collide too, so methods and pace differ and tension arises easily — though such pairs can also spur each other to grow.

Real compatibility looks at both whole charts, each person's useful element and the luck you go through together, not one day pillar. See how compatibility works.

When does a Geng Shen day come around?

Day pillars run in a sixty-day cycle. From October 2026 to the end of 2027, 庚申 Geng Shen days fall 13 times: Sat, Dec 12, 2026; Wed, Feb 10, 2027; Sun, Apr 11, 2027; Thu, Jun 10, 2027; Mon, Aug 9, 2027; Fri, Oct 8, 2027; Tue, Dec 7, 2027; Sat, Feb 5, 2028; Wed, Apr 5, 2028; Sun, Jun 4, 2028; Thu, Aug 3, 2028; Mon, Oct 2, 2028; Fri, Dec 1, 2028 (by the local calendar date). A day that repeats your own day pillar is read as a day when your Day Master is strong — some use it to start something important or to take stock.

What 2026 and 2027 mean for a Geng Shen day pillar

• 2026, the 丙午 Bing Wu year: the stem 丙 is your Seven Killings and the branch 午 is your Direct Officer, so it is a year when responsibility and being evaluated weigh more. No combination or clash with your day branch, so the year runs fairly calmly.
• 2027, the 丁未 Ding Wei year: the stem 丁 is your Direct Officer and the branch 未 is your Direct Resource, so it is a year when responsibility and being evaluated weigh more. No combination or clash with your day branch, so the year runs fairly calmly.

2027 month by month

Saju months change at the solar terms, not on the 1st. For a Geng Shen day pillar we calculated the ten god of each month's stem and how the month's branch meets your day branch. Months that combine with your day branch: April (甲辰), May (乙巳), December (壬子). The month that clashes with it: February (壬寅).

Zodiac signs that suit Geng Shen, and signs that clash

Counting from the day branch 申, the Rat (子), Dragon (辰), Snake (巳) form a Six or Three Harmony and are read as easy matches; the Tiger (寅) clashes with it, so pace and style differ. A zodiac sign is only the other person's year branch, so real compatibility needs both whole charts.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the Geng Shen day pillar? Day pillars repeat every sixty days, so about one person in sixty (1.7%) is born on a Geng Shen day. The next Geng Shen day is Sat, Dec 12, 2026.

What is 2027 like for a Geng Shen day pillar? The 2027 丁未 Ding Wei year brings Direct Officer and Direct Resource, a year when responsibility and being evaluated weigh more. Your actual year also depends on your luck pillar and whole chart, which your free reading shows.

Which zodiac signs match a Geng Shen day pillar? By the day branch, the Rat (子), Dragon (辰), Snake (巳) suit it and the Tiger (寅) tends to clash.

The facts table, the matching pillars, the dates, the 2026–2027 flow and the zodiac signs all come from the same engine as our readings; the month pillars were re-checked against the solar-term times. A day pillar is two of the eight characters in a chart, so the same day pillar reads quite differently depending on the year, month and hour of birth.

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