Eating God食神
The element you produce, same polarity. Tradition links it with enjoyment, ease and creative output.
- For a 甲 day
- 丙
- Also called
- 天廚、壽星
見丙：為食神、天廚、壽星，為男。
Meeting 丙: this is the Eating God, also Heavenly Kitchen and Star of Long Life, a son.
Yuan Hai Zi Ping
命中帶此者，主人財厚食豐、腹量寬洪、肌體肥大、優游自足、有子息、有壽考。
Those who carry it have ample money and food, a broad heart and a full body. They live at ease, with children and long life.
Yuan Hai Zi Ping
In plain words
The element you produce, same polarity. It drains you a little, which is why the book first calls it stolen energy. The name comes from what it does next: it feeds your wealth, and so it feeds you.
It is one of the kindest of the ten. The book wants the Day Master strong enough to carry it, and it fears Indirect Resource, which attacks it.
What it is
With 甲 (Jia) as the day stem, this is 丙.
Named against your own day stem.
Sources Yuan Hai Zi Ping, from an online transcription, not yet checked against a printed edition. The plain text is ours.