Yang Metal Day Master
The Ten Day Masters · Gyeong · 경금 · 庚
Decides while others deliberate. Justice over harmony, every time.
Gyeong is raw ore and the blade forged from it: decisive, unsentimental, built for the cut. You see the world in terms of what should be removed — the failing project, the bad clause, the friend who has become a cost. Where others deliberate, you've already acted, and your judgment under pressure is the best in the chart. Justice matters to you more than harmony, which makes you a superb advocate and an exhausting dinner guest. The blade's flaw is that it cuts before checking what it's cutting; some things you severed needed stitches instead. Metal is refined by fire — your sharpest growth comes through the trials you'd least choose.
The element behind it
Your day master sits in the Metal element — clarity and structure. In the five-element cycle, Metal is produced by Earth and in turn produces Water. Whether a chart wants more Metal or an outlet from it depends on the whole eight characters, not the day master alone — which is what a full reading works out.
Its opposite pole
Yang Metal shares the Metal element with its counterpart, Yin Metal (Shin), the jewel that finds the flaw at twenty paces. Same element, opposite polarity — the pair reads as two expressions of one nature.
The ten day masters
There are ten heavenly stems, and the one on your day pillar is your day master — the single character that anchors a saju reading. See all ten, or read about the five elements they belong to.