Ba Zi Ten Gods for Jia Wood Day Master (甲): The Complete Table

If your Day Master (日主 rìzhǔ) is Jiǎ Wood (甲 jiǎ), you are the tall, structural tree of the sixty-pillar system — upright, growth-seeking, slow to bend. To read your chart you first need to translate every other Heavenly Stem (天干 tiāngān) into its relationship with you. That translation layer is the Ten Gods (十神 shíshén), and this page lays out the complete bazi ten gods for Jia Wood Day Master so you can name each influence on sight.

The logic is fixed. A stem’s Ten God depends only on its element relative to yours and whether the polarity matches or opposes your own yang. Nothing here is improvised — it follows directly from the five-element cycle.

The complete Ba Zi Ten Gods for Jia Wood Day Master

Read this as your personal key. Wherever Wù Earth (戊 wù) appears in your chart, it is Indirect Wealth; wherever Xīn Metal (辛 xīn) appears, it is your Direct Officer, and so on.

Companions: Jia and Yi Wood

Another Jiǎ Wood beside you is a Friend (比肩 bǐjiān) — a peer of the same rank, someone who competes and cooperates on level footing. Yǐ Wood (乙 yǐ), the yin vine to your yang trunk, reads as Rob Wealth (劫财 jiécái): same element, opposite polarity, more restless and more willing to reach into shared resources.

For a Jia Wood chart, companions matter most when the tree is already strong. A forest of Wood competes for the same soil and sunlight, so extra Jiǎ and Yǐ can crowd your wealth rather than support it. When the Day Master is weak, though, these same companions are the friends who help you carry the load.

Output: where Fire lets Wood express

Wood feeds Fire, so the two Fire stems are your Output. Bǐng Fire (丙 bǐng), broad daylight, is your Eating God (食神 shíshén) — steady, generous, creative output that feels natural to produce. Dīng Fire (丁 dīng), candle and lamp, is your Hurting Officer (伤官 shāngguān): sharper, more performative, brilliant but harder to govern.

In practice, a Jia Wood person leaning on Bing tends to build things patiently and teach well. The same person channelling Ding is the one who dazzles, argues, and occasionally overturns the very authority that would reward them. Both are your talent leaving the body — the difference is temperature.

Wealth: Wu and Ji Earth

Wood controls Earth, so Earth is what your Wood roots grip and manage. Wù Earth (戊), the mountain and open field, is your Indirect Wealth (偏财 piāncái) — windfalls, ventures, the money that comes in waves. Jǐ Earth (己), the garden soil, is your Direct Wealth (正财 zhèngcái), the steady salary and, for a male chart, the classical wife star.

The concrete picture: a Jia Wood Day Master doesn’t chase Earth so much as cultivate it. Direct Wealth in Ji is the field you tend every season; Indirect Wealth in Wu is the hillside you clear when the opportunity is large enough. A strong tree can work a lot of soil. A weak one exhausts itself trying.

Power: Geng and Xin Metal

Metal cuts Wood, so Metal is the force that shapes, prunes and disciplines you. Gēng Metal (庚 gēng), the axe, is Seven Killings (七杀 qīshā) — raw pressure, deadlines, rivals, the authority that tests you without ceremony. Xīn Metal (辛 xīn), the fine blade, is your Direct Officer (正官 zhèngguān): legitimate structure, rank, and reputation earned by rules.

A Jia Wood chart with well-placed Xin tends to thrive inside institutions and titles. With unrefined Geng and no Fire to temper it, the same pressure can feel like being hacked at. This is why practitioners look for Fire to control the Metal, or Water to lead it back into growth.

Resource: Ren and Gui Water

Water grows Wood, so the two Water stems are your Resource — nourishment, learning, protection. Rén Water (壬 rén), the river, is Indirect Resource (偏印 piānyìn): unconventional knowledge, intuition, the mentor who arrives sideways. Guǐ Water (癸 guǐ), dew and rain, is Direct Resource (正印 zhèngyìn), the orthodox support of parents, credentials and steady care.

For Jia Wood, Gui is the quiet rain that keeps the tree alive through a dry season, while Ren can either irrigate or, in flood, float the roots loose. Whether Resource helps depends on whether your tree needs feeding or draining — which is a question of Day Master strength, not of the star alone.

Palace position: the same god at four addresses

Once a stem is named, ask where it stands, because the pillar it occupies decides which chapter of life it speaks to. Gēng Seven Killings on the year or month reads as pressure met early — the demanding household, the exacting school — while the same Gēng on the hour pillar, the palace of later life and output, points to command that arrives with age. The wealth stars have a seat worth checking too: Jǐ Earth hides inside the branch Wǔ 午, so a Jia chart born on a Jiǎ Wǔ day carries its Direct Wealth — the classical wife star for a man — inside the spouse palace itself, star and palace agreeing. And Guǐ Direct Resource on the month pillar is the schooled, well-tended formative season every teacher hopes to give a young tree. Same labels, four different addresses, four different readings.

How to use this in a real reading

Naming the Ten Gods is step one. The working question is always which of these stars your chart actually needs. A robust Jiǎ trunk usually welcomes Wealth and Officer to give its strength a job; a thin sapling usually wants Resource and companions first. For the underlying theory, see our overview of the Day Master concept and the wider Ten Gods master table covering every stem, plus the dedicated Jia Wood Day Master profile. The guide to all ten Day Masters sets Jiǎ beside its nine siblings; the yin twin of this map is the Yi Wood table, and the god Jia charts ask about most, the Seven Killings, has a deep page of its own.

Find the bazi ten gods for Jia Wood Day Master in your own chart — plot it free with the Butcher Boy calculator and see exactly which wealth, officer and resource stems are already sitting in your four pillars.