Gui Water Day Master (癸水)

Gui is yin Water: rain, mist, dew and spring water. Quiet and fine, it reaches everywhere and nourishes everything it touches.

Personality

Gui people are intuitive, gentle and imaginative. They pick up on moods, think deeply and influence others without making noise.

Strengths

• Empathy and intuition
• Imagination and subtle intelligence
• Patient influence that works over time

Things to watch

• Can feel overwhelmed or drained
• Tends toward self-doubt
• Needs a source (metal) to keep flowing and some warmth to avoid going cold

What helps a Gui Water chart

Gui relies on Geng and Xin metal as its source; in summer it needs that support most of all.

Classical imagery

癸水至弱，达于天津。得龙而运，功化斯神。

“Gui Water is the weakest, yet it reaches the heavenly ford. Meeting the dragon, it moves, and its workings become marvellous.” Read: the gentlest water can transform the most. — Di Tian Sui (滴天髓), “On the Heavenly Stems”; translation and gloss are our own.

A Day Master is only the starting point: two people with the same Day Master can read very differently depending on their birth month and the other seven characters in the chart.