Xin · Yin Metal day master
The Yin Metal day master: the jewel
Yin Metal, also called Xin Metal, is one of the ten day masters in BaZi, the Chinese Four Pillars. In short, like a jewel: polished and refined, with high standards and a strong sense of its own worth.
What Yin Metal is like
In BaZi the Yin Metal day master is pictured as the jewel, the smaller, more inward form of Metal. People with this day master tend to share a few habits:
- Has taste and knows it, from fonts to friends.
- Looks gentle and is not to be underestimated.
- Can tell real quality from a good imitation in seconds.
You can usually spot a Yin Metal: the one whose apartment looks like a catalog, and who will send back the wine.
The blind spot
Will notice the typo on your wedding invitation, say nothing and think about it for a week.
Yin Metal and Yang Metal
Yin Metal and Yang Metal share an element and differ in scale: the jewel and the blade. Yang Metal: tough, decisive, loyal, and cuts clean.
Where Metal sits among the five elements
Metal belongs to autumn, the west and the color white. Earth carries Metal, and Metal gathers Water, the way dew forms on cold iron. Fire melts it. Metal cuts Wood.
| Relationship | Element |
|---|---|
| Keeps Metal going | Earth |
| Metal keeps going | Water |
| Keeps Metal in check | Fire |
| Metal keeps in check | Wood |
These are the traditional relationships between elements. In a real chart they are only a starting point: what helps one Yin Metal person can crowd another, depending on how much Metal the rest of the chart already has. How the five elements work.
Yin Metal in love
A Yin Metal is choosy, and devoted once the choice is made. Effort gets noticed, and so do the small details of how they are treated. A careless remark stays longer than they let on.
Yin Metal at work
Give them work where taste and precision count, like editing, refining or spotting what is off. Work that rewards rushing makes them restless.
Getting along with Yin Metal
Quality matters to a Yin Metal, in work and in how people treat each other. Sloppy effort reads as disrespect. Specific praise goes a long way; "great job" barely registers.
What tends to help
If you're Yin Metal, what tends to help is a discipline with an external standard you didn't invent and can't argue with. BaZi also asks how much Metal the rest of your chart holds. With a lot of it, the habits above run louder and the work is finding somewhere for all of it to go. With little, the same habits are there with less behind them, and rest takes longer to do its job. Your free reading shows how much of each element your chart holds.
How to know if you're Yin Metal
Your day master is the heavenly stem of the day you were born, counted on the Chinese solar calendar. Each of the ten stems comes around once every ten days, so about one person in ten is Yin Metal. Your birthday is enough to find it; if you were born close to midnight, the hour can decide which day counts. Fusola calls this your Core.
Your day master is a different thing from the element of your birth year, the one paired with your zodiac animal. Plenty of Yin Metal people were born in a year of another element.
The other half of the label
In Fusola, the day master is half of your type. The other half is your shaping force, the strongest of ten forces in your chart (the Ten Gods, in BaZi books). Together they make a label like Yin Metal · Grit, one of 100. The ten shaping forces.
Find your day master
Your free reading works out your day master and shaping force from your birthday and shows the five elements in your chart. It takes about two minutes.
Start my free readingQuestions people ask
Is Xin Metal the same as Yin Metal?
Yes. Xin is the Chinese name of the heavenly stem, so English BaZi books call it either Xin Metal or Yin Metal.
What is the difference between Yin Metal and Yang Metal?
They share the element and differ in scale. Yin Metal is the jewel; Yang Metal is the blade. The Yin form is smaller and more inward, and it shows in how each one handles people.
Is Yin Metal the same as being born in a Metal year?
No. The year element comes from your birth year and goes with your zodiac animal. The day master comes from your birth day, so a Yin Metal day master can be born in any year.
How rare is the Yin Metal day master?
Not rare. The ten heavenly stems take turns, one per day, so roughly one person in ten has any given day master, Yin Metal included.
What element is good for Yin Metal?
It depends on the whole chart. BaZi weighs how strong your Metal is against everything else in your four pillars, so two Yin Metal people can need different things. Your free reading shows how much of each element your chart holds.
Does a Yin Metal day master decide my personality?
In BaZi it describes one part of it. The day master is one of eight characters in a BaZi chart, and the rest of the chart changes how it shows up. That is why Fusola pairs it with a shaping force.
Which day masters get along with Yin Metal?
The element cycle gives a first impression: Earth keeps Metal going and Metal keeps Water going. How two people actually get along depends on both full charts, which is what a Duet reading in Fusola looks at.