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乙丑 Yi Chou Day Pillar: Winter grass rooted in frozen ground

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

Yi Chou is delicate grass (乙) rooted in the cold, wet ground of midwinter (丑). Soft on the outside, it has the grit to survive the cold.

At a glance

Personality

You look gentle and mild but are firm and tenacious inside. You have good practical sense, are careful with money and quietly see every task through. Sitting on Indirect Wealth, you have a feel for where money and opportunity flow. The Decline stage makes you move in a seasoned, unhurried way.

Love and partner

With Indirect Wealth in the spouse palace, you bond deeply with practical, capable partners. In love you show care through actions more than words. You rarely reveal your feelings, which can leave a partner feeling shut out, so put your heart into words now and then.

Work and money

You are strong where substance and care matter: finance, distribution, management, running your own business. Digging one well for a long time to build a base suits you. You are good at saving step by step.

Cautions and advice

A Seven Killings (辛) hidden in 丑 means you tend to swallow stress. Let it out bit by bit instead of holding on until it bursts. Warm, sunny people and activities help winter grass grow.

Day pillars that click, and day pillars that clash

Stems and branches both combine: 庚子 Geng Zi. 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: 辛未 Xin Wei. 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 Yi Chou day come around?

Day pillars run in a sixty-day cycle. From October 2026 to the end of 2027, 乙丑 Yi Chou days fall 13 times: Thu, Dec 17, 2026; Mon, Feb 15, 2027; Fri, Apr 16, 2027; Tue, Jun 15, 2027; Sat, Aug 14, 2027; Wed, Oct 13, 2027; Sun, Dec 12, 2027; Thu, Feb 10, 2028; Mon, Apr 10, 2028; Fri, Jun 9, 2028; Tue, Aug 8, 2028; Sat, Oct 7, 2028; Wed, Dec 6, 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 Yi Chou day pillar

• 2026, the 丙午 Bing Wu year: the stem 丙 is your Hurting Officer and the branch 午 is your Eating God, so it is a year when you express yourself and start new things. With your day branch: Harm — small hurts pile up easily; Wonjin — needless friction.
• 2027, the 丁未 Ding Wei year: the stem 丁 is your Eating God and the branch 未 is your Indirect Wealth, so it is a year when you express yourself and start new things. With your day branch: clashes your day branch — moves and changes, a busier mind; Punishment — things to adjust and refine.

2027 month by month

Saju months change at the solar terms, not on the 1st. For a Yi Chou 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: May (乙巳), September (己酉), December (壬子). The month that clashes with it: July (丁未).

Zodiac signs that suit Yi Chou, and signs that clash

Counting from the day branch 丑, the Rat (子), Snake (巳), Rooster (酉) form a Six or Three Harmony and are read as easy matches; the Goat (未) 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 Yi Chou day pillar? Day pillars repeat every sixty days, so about one person in sixty (1.7%) is born on a Yi Chou day. The next Yi Chou day is Thu, Dec 17, 2026.

What is 2027 like for a Yi Chou day pillar? The 2027 丁未 Ding Wei year brings Eating God and Indirect Wealth, a year when you express yourself and start new things. Your actual year also depends on your luck pillar and whole chart, which your free reading shows.

Which zodiac signs match a Yi Chou day pillar? By the day branch, the Rat (子), Snake (巳), Rooster (酉) suit it and the Goat (未) 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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