The Yin Water day master: the rain

What Yin Water is like

In BaZi the Yin Water day master is pictured as the rain, the smaller, more inward form of Water. People with this day master tend to share a few habits:

• Hears what's under what people say.
• Has a rich inner world and a good imagination.
• Gets in quietly and changes things slowly, the way rain does.

You can usually spot a Yin Water: the one who texts "you ok?" right when you weren't.

The blind spot

Feels everything, explains nothing, and expects you to just know.

Yin Water and Yang Water

Yin Water and Yang Water share an element and differ in scale: the rain and the ocean. Yang Water: big-minded, quick, always moving, and hard to contain.

Where Water sits among the five elements

Water belongs to winter, the north and the deep color the old books call black. Metal gathers Water, and Water keeps Wood growing. Earth banks and dams it. Water puts out Fire.

These are the traditional relationships between elements. In a real chart they are only a starting point: what helps one Yin Water person can crowd another, depending on how much Water the rest of the chart already has. How the five elements work.

Yin Water in love

In love, a Yin Water is intuitive and tender, tuned to small changes in your mood. The wish is to be understood without explaining everything, which takes patience on both sides.

Yin Water at work

Reading people and situations is the gift, and work that rewards listening and noticing puts it to use. A flexible week suits them better than a rigid schedule.

Getting along with Yin Water

Moods reach a Yin Water before anything is said, yours included. That can look like distance when it is closer to taking everything in. Say what you need plainly; guessing games are something they are good at and tired of.

What tends to help

If you're Yin Water, what tends to help is people running at your speed who don't need the speed explained. BaZi also asks how much Water 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 Water

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 Water. 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 Water 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 Water · Grit, one of 100. The ten shaping forces.