Ren Water Day Master (壬水)

Ren is yang Water: great rivers and the open sea. It moves, connects and carries a lot with it.

Personality

Ren people are broad-minded, curious and restless. They like movement, big pictures and new horizons.

Strengths

• Intelligence and wide vision
• Adaptability and resourcefulness
• Able to connect people and ideas

Things to watch

• Can be hard to pin down
• Too much flow without banks becomes scattered
• Needs 'earth' — structure and commitment — to direct its power

What helps a Ren Water chart

Strong Ren needs Wu earth as a riverbank; winter Ren also needs fire for warmth.

Classical imagery

壬水通河，能泄金气。刚中之德，周流不滞。

“Ren Water connects with the great rivers and draws off the strength of metal. Firm at its center, it flows everywhere and never stagnates.” Read: momentum is its gift. — 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.