Thursday · Yang Earth Tiger year · Yin Metal Rooster month · 庚申 day
You are The Metal (金) 庚. Born in the early autumn of September, your 庚 Metal leans markedly strong, read from the season your self is measured against - before your birth hour is counted. Yang Metal, the axe and the ore: decisive, strong, cuts to the point; the executor, can be blunt or hard. As an element, Metal (金) is structure and clarity: discipline, refinement, the cut that sets a standard.
Your 庚 sits on 申 (the Monkey (猴)) - in the twelve-stage cycle this is 临官 (Office): Assuming Office - ready to act. The Monkey (Yang Metal, early autumn): the clever tool - wit, agility, resourcefulness, quick hands. Underneath, seated in your inner palace, is Peers (比肩) (via hidden 庚) - the equal: peers and self-reliance, standing shoulder to shoulder; independent, sometimes immovable. Beneath that sit 食神 (壬) and 偏印 (戊).
What this chart reaches for is Metal (金). Whether you already carry it is the rest of your chart - the season sets the need, not the answer. What helps you: Metal, Earth, Water. What works against you: Wood, Fire.
The loudest conversation in your chart is between your day and your month: 三会 (a direction) with 辛酉 - two parts of the same Metal direction - you face the same way, a strong same-season pull.
Your day-pillar nayin is Pomegranate Wood (石榴木) (石榴木) - the pomegranate tree - sharp flavour and fertility, ripens in its own time. This date carries Yang Blade (羊刃格) - your Day Master peaks in the month - sharp, forceful, a blade that cuts both ways.
Your Day Pillar — the one that defines who you actually are — needs your exact birthday.