金 Metal
The five elements — wood, fire, earth, metal and water — are not substances. They are five modes of behaviour that the chart uses to describe movement: expansion, radiance, stabilisation, refinement and flow. Each of the eight characters in a chart carries one, and the proportions they land in are the first thing any reading looks at, because a chart is rarely even.
How it sits in the cycle
Metal is produced by Earth and in turn produces Water — that is the generating cycle (생). It controls Wood and is controlled by Fire — the controlling cycle (극). Both directions matter: an element with nothing to produce backs up, and an element with nothing controlling it overruns the chart.
Excess and deficiency
A chart is read not by which elements appear but by how unevenly they land. An element well above its share behaves like a habit the person cannot switch off; one near zero behaves like a capacity they have to borrow from elsewhere. Neither is a flaw — they are descriptions of where the chart concentrates.
When it runs high
Metal runs high — precision is your default setting
You have clear standards, clean boundaries and a low tolerance for waffle. This makes you excellent at deciding and at quality control. It can also make you sharper in conversation than you intended to be.
Metal is refined by heat, not by more Metal. Warmth in delivery costs you nothing and doubles your reach.
When it is missing
Metal is thin — you keep more doors open than you close
Cutting things off is genuinely harder for you: commitments, drafts, relationships that ended a while ago. You would rather keep the option than take the loss.
Practise the small no. Deciding is a muscle, and Metal is built by using it on things that do not matter much.
The stems that carry it
Each element has two Heavenly Stems — one yang, one yin. They share what feeds and drains them but behave differently under pressure, which is why the Day Master matters more than the element alone.
- 庚 Gyeong — Forged Steel (yang)
- 辛 Sin — Polished Gem (yin)
How SajuSis measures it
The element balance is computed, not estimated. After converting the birth moment to true solar time for the birth location, the engine assigns each stem and branch its element (branches carry hidden stems, so they contribute more than one), weights them by position, and returns a percentage per element. The reading then quotes the number it used for every claim it makes.
What this does not tell you
An element reading describes tendencies inside a chart, not events in a life. It does not predict health, wealth, relationships or outcomes of any kind, and nothing here should inform a medical, legal or financial decision. The element layer is also only one of several — Day Master strength, the Ten Gods and the stars all modify how any of this reads in a real chart.