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A room of Water · 水
BaZi
In BaZi (八字, the Four Pillars), your day master is the element that stands for you. A Water day master is read through the season it was born into and the phases around it that source, drain, bank, or warm it.
Water is strong in winter, the months of 亥子丑 (hài zǐ chǒu), when the season is already Water, and weak in summer, when heat scatters it. A strong Water wants draining or channelling; a weak Water wants feeding and sheltering.
The classical model reads Water against the other four phases: Metal sources it, Wood drains it, Earth banks it, and Fire warms it and, in the wealth reading, is what Water acts upon. Which of these a chart needs is the whole art. Cold winter Water in particular is often said to want a little Fire for warmth, 调候 (tiáo hòu), the temperature adjustment.
Where Water sits