Heavenly Stem 1 of 10
Jia甲
Yang wood, the first stem. Tradition pictures a tall tree.
- Element
- Wood
- Polarity
- Yang
- Direction
- East
- Season
- Spring
甲木參天，脫胎要火。春不容金，秋不容土。火熾乘龍，水宕騎虎。地潤天和，植立千古。
Di Tian Sui
What it is
Jia opens the ten stems and the sixty-part cycle. Di Tian Sui calls it pure yang wood, tall and strong, and says it needs fire before it can open out.
In a chart
If this is the stem of your day pillar, it is your Day Master, and the rest of the chart is read against it.
Relations
甲 Jia combines with 己 Ji, turning to Earth. It clashes with 庚 Geng.
Sources Di Tian Sui Chan Wei; Xie Ji Bian Fang Shu, vol. 1.