What ATEEZ Hongjoong's 戊午 day pillar says about his ideal partner — read from his birth chart, not from an interview.
In Korean astrology, Hongjoong's ideal partner is calm rather than fiery. His 戊午 day pillar — the part of a Saju chart that describes what someone is drawn to — is baked, immovable earth in an already hot chart, so he is drawn to someone cool and emotionally steady who settles his intensity instead of matching it.
Hongjoong's day pillar is solid earth sitting under a midday sun. It runs hot and it does not move. A mountain that will not be pushed, and mostly does not want to be.
He was born in the dry part of autumn, which only makes that worse. Everything in the chart is heat and hard ground, and there is very little in it that softens.
So he is not drawn to more of the same. Someone equally intense would just be two immovable people getting hotter, and he has enough of that on his own.
He is drawn to water. Someone cool and calm, emotionally steady, with a flowing ease about them that takes the edge off his intensity. A partner who settles his temper rather than matching it, who brings quiet where he brings fire. Not someone who backs down. Someone who simply does not catch.
Hongjoong's 午 holds 丙 Fire, 己 Earth, and 丁 Fire as the principal.
Against his 戊 day master that reads as 편인, 겁재 and 정인 — support, a peer, and more support. Every one of them adds to him. None of them cools him down, and there is no 재성 in the position at all; his partner star is the 壬 sitting above in his month stem.
So the spouse palace is the hottest part of an already hot chart, and the relief has to come from outside it. 午 is also 양인 for a 戊 day master — the Yang Blade, the sharpest form of self-strength, sitting in the position that describes what he is drawn to.
Because there is almost none. Hongjoong was born on 7 November 1998, in the 戌 month — dry autumn earth, with 戌 and his 午 branch forming half a Fire frame between them.
《穷通宝鉴》 on 戊土 in this month asks for 甲 to break the ground open and 癸 to moisten it. He has 壬 as his month stem, the large, moving form of water, and 甲 hidden in his year branch.
The correction exists in his chart but it is thin, and it is doing a lot of work. Which is why the coolness he is drawn to reads as relief rather than as preference.
Read from stem combination, branch harmony, clash and 원진. Why these four →
Both halves at once — 戊 and 癸 combine at the stem, 午 and 未 at the branch — and 癸 is the exact water 《穷通宝鉴》 asks for on this chart. The clean answer.
The same branch harmony, with 辛 draining the excess earth and feeding water rather than adding to the pile.
乙 loosens packed ground the way the classics describe, with 未 harmonising the branch. The gentlest of the three.
子 against 午 is the sharpest clash there is, and it lands on the spouse palace. Frustrating, because 子 is also the water he needs — right element, wrong position.
丑 with 午 is 원진, plus more earth into a chart that is already all earth.
Normally 寅 would be a harmony here through the 寅午戌 frame. On this chart it is the opposite: completing that frame turns the whole thing to Fire, which is the last thing it needs.
This is the rare pillar where the standard three-harmony frame works against the person. 寅 and 戌 support 午 on paper, but both push a chart this dry further in the wrong direction.
Wooyoung carries the same 午 spouse palace over a Water day master, which produces close to the opposite reading from the same three hidden stems. Wooyoung's 壬午 reading →
Two full charts read against each other is the actual method. Compare two birth dates and see where they support each other and where they push.
COMPARE TWO CHARTSHongjoong was born on 7 November 1998, giving him a 戊午 day pillar and a 壬戌 month. Idol birth times are not public, so this works from three pillars rather than four. How day pillars work, and how far this method goes →
Your day pillar comes from your birth date, not your birth month, which is why a star sign cannot give it to you. Free, and about a minute.
FIND MY DAY PILLARSomeone cool and calm. His 戊午 day pillar is baked earth under a midday sun in a chart that is already dry and hot, so he is drawn to an emotionally steady partner with a flowing ease about them — someone who settles his intensity rather than matching it.
Anyone as intense as he is. Two immovable people simply get hotter, and he supplies enough of that himself without a partner adding to it.
戊午, from his birth date of 7 November 1998. In Saju the day pillar is the relationship indicator: the stem is the person and the branch is the spouse palace, 배우자궁.
癸未 is the clean answer, combining at both the stem and the branch while bringing the water his chart wants. 辛未 and 乙未 also fit. 子 clashes with his spouse palace, 丑 forms 원진, and 寅 is a trap — it harmonises on paper but heats an already dry chart.
His 午 branch holds 丙 Fire, 己 Earth and 丁 Fire — 편인, 겁재 and 정인 against his day master, all of which add to him and none of which cool him. 午 is also 양인 for 戊, the Yang Blade, sitting directly in that position.