What's Your Saju Element?
Enter your birth date to reveal your Day Master (일간) — the Five-Element core of your Korean Saju chart.
For educational and entertainment purposes only. The Day Master shown is the Heavenly Stem of your day pillar (일주), calculated from the traditional 60-갑자 sexagenary cycle using your birth date. A full Saju reading also considers the year, month, and hour pillars.
What is a Saju Day Master (일간)?
In Korean Saju (사주, Four Pillars of Destiny), your chart is built from four pillars — year, month, day, and hour. Each pillar has a Heavenly Stem (천간) and an Earthly Branch (지지). The Heavenly Stem of your day pillar is called the Day Master (일간) and represents you — the very center of your chart.
There are ten Heavenly Stems, mapped to the Five Elements (오행): Gap and Eul are Wood (목), Byeong and Jeong are Fire (화), Mu and Gi are Earth (토), Gyeong and Sin are Metal (금), and Im and Gye are Water (수). Your Day Master's element shapes your core temperament and the way you move through the world.
How is the Day Master calculated?
The day pillar follows the unbroken 60-갑자 cycle. This calculator derives the day's sexagenary number directly from your birth date and reads off the Heavenly Stem — the same method used in traditional 만세력 almanacs — so the element you see is accurate, not a guess.
Five Elements at a glance
Wood grows and reaches; Fire radiates and inspires; Earth grounds and holds; Metal refines and decides; Water flows and adapts. Curious how your element interacts with the rest of your chart? Get your full reading below.