Ba Zi Ten Gods for Ding Fire Day Master (丁): The Complete Table

The Ten Gods (十神 shíshén) are the ten relationships every other stem can hold to your Day Master (日主 rìzhǔ). Fix the Day Master and the ten labels stop being abstract theory and become a reading. This page sets the Day Master to Dīng 丁, the yin fire of the lamp and the candle, and lays out the complete bazi ten gods for Ding Fire Day Master exactly as they fall.

Dīng is quiet, contained warmth. It does not blaze like its yang sibling; it holds a steady point of heat. Because polarity decides whether a relationship reads as “direct” or “indirect”, a yin Day Master flips several assignments you may have memorised for yang fire. Read the table first, then the group notes.

The complete Ba Zi Ten Gods for Ding Fire Day Master

Every heavenly stem is mapped against a Dīng Day Master below. The label is fixed by two things: the five-element relationship between the stem and Dīng, and whether their polarities match or oppose.

Notice the wealth row: for Dīng, yang Gēng metal is the Direct Wealth and yin Xīn metal is the Indirect Wealth. That is the polarity rule at work — opposite charge makes the “proper” bond, same charge makes the looser one. If you have seen the reverse on a yang fire chart, this is why.

Companions: Bing and Ding

Your own element returning is the companion group. Dīng meeting another Dīng is the Friend (比肩 bǐjiān); Dīng meeting yang Bǐng 丙 is Rob Wealth (劫财 jiécái). A second candle beside yours is steadying company. Bǐng, the sun, is a different matter — its brightness can outshine and consume the very wealth Dīng was reaching for, which is the old sense behind “rob wealth”. For a weak Dīng these companions are welcome fuel; for a strong one they crowd the flame.

Output: Wu and Ji, where the light does its work

Fire produces earth, so earth is Dīng’s output. Yang Wù 戊 earth reads as Hurting Officer (伤官 shāngguān) and yin Jǐ 己 earth as Eating God (食神 shíshén). This is the group that turns a candle’s heat into something visible — expression, craft, performance, the finished object. Jǐ as Eating God is the gentler, sustained output: patient skill. Wù as Hurting Officer is sharper and more brilliant, the talent that dazzles but can offend authority if left unchecked. In a Dīng chart these earth stems are often where the person’s actual gift lives.

Wealth and Officer: Metal and Water

Fire controls metal, so metal is what Dīng governs and therefore its wealth. Gēng 庚 is Direct Wealth (正财 zhèngcái), the steady salary and the reliable asset; Xīn 辛 is Indirect Wealth (偏财 piāncái), windfalls, side ventures and opportunistic gains. A Dīng flame melting and shaping metal is the classic image of a small fire producing real value, but only if the flame is strong enough not to be smothered by the very metal it works.

Water controls fire, so water is Dīng’s Officer and pressure. Rén 壬 yang water is the Direct Officer (正官 zhèngguān) — legitimate authority, structure, the rules you accept; Guǐ 癸 yin water is Seven Killings (七杀 qīshā), the harsher pressure of rivals, deadlines and unofficial power. A candle in a downpour is extinguished, so for Dīng the officer stars must be read against strength with real care.

Resource: Jia and Yi wood

Wood produces fire, so wood feeds Dīng directly. Jiǎ 甲 is the Direct Resource (正印 zhèngyìn), the big timber that keeps a flame burning long — mentors, credentials, institutional backing. Yǐ 乙 is the Indirect Resource (偏印 piānyìn), grass and kindling: quicker support, unconventional learning, intuition. A depleted Dīng craves this wood; an already-strong one can be over-fed by it, and the flame smokes rather than shines.

Palace by palace for a Ding chart

After naming a god, place it. The day branch is the spouse palace, and its hidden stems tell you which god lives there: a Dīng Sì day pillar keeps Gēng tucked inside Sì 巳, the Direct Wealth — classically the wife star for a man — seated in the marriage palace itself, while a Dīng Hài day pillar holds Rén as the main qi of Hài 亥, the Direct Officer and classical husband star occupying that same seat. On the month pillar, Jiǎ Direct Resource marks a schooled, well-mentored formative season, timber laid up early for a long-burning flame. On the hour pillar — the palace of output, children and later life — a Jǐ Eating God is the patient craft that ripens after fifty. Same ten labels; the address decides the chapter.

Three questions Ding charts ask

First: both Waters appear — what now? Rén Direct Officer beside Guǐ Seven Killings is what the classics call mixed authority (官杀混杂 guānshā hùnzá), two kinds of pressure on one candle, and practitioners read which is better rooted before judging the career. Second: is a candle always weak? No — a Dīng born amid timber and companion fire can be robustly strong; the season and the whole chart decide, not the stem’s size. Third: which god makes Dīng wealthy? None by itself. The metal wealth stars only pay when the flame is strong enough to work them, which is the strength judgement again.

Reading it in a real chart

The table tells you what each stem is. Whether it helps depends on whether your Dīng is strong or weak, which you judge from the whole chart and the season of birth — see our guide to a strong versus weak Day Master before you decide any stem is friend or foe. For the wider fire temperament, the Ding Fire Day Master profile sits alongside this table, and the complete Ten Gods table for every Day Master lets you compare Dīng against the other nine stems. The ten Day Masters guide gives the full cast, the yang sun’s key is at Bing Fire ten gods, and the gentle output star where Dīng’s gift so often lives has its own page at Eating God in Ba Zi.

See the bazi ten gods for Ding Fire Day Master land in your own four pillars — plot your chart free with the Butcher Boy calculator and read the ten labels against your real stems.