Ji Earth Day Master (己土)

Ji is yin Earth, the soft soil of fields and gardens. It receives, holds and nourishes whatever is planted in it.

Personality

Ji people are accommodating, practical and nurturing. They notice what others need and quietly make it happen.

Strengths

• Supportive and resourceful
• Good at managing details, people and resources
• Patient — able to wait for results

Things to watch

• Can absorb other people's problems
• Hesitant to assert their own needs
• Needs warmth (fire) to turn care into results

What helps a Ji Earth chart

Ji does best with sun and a little water; cold, waterlogged Ji needs Bing fire before anything else.

Classical imagery

己土卑湿，中正蓄藏。火少火晦，金多金光。

“Ji Earth is low and moist, centered, a place of storage. With little fire, the fire is dimmed; with much metal, the metal shines.” Read: Ji brings out what is in others. — 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.