What ATEEZ Jongho's 癸卯 day pillar says about his ideal partner — read from his birth chart, not from an interview.
In Korean astrology, Jongho's ideal partner is kind and easy-natured. His 癸卯 day pillar — the part of a Saju chart that describes what someone is drawn to — is quiet water feeding a young branch, and his spouse palace holds a single stem: 식신, the star of nurture. He is drawn to someone he can care for and grow alongside.
Jongho's day pillar is quiet water feeding a young branch. Not a large body of water and not a dramatic one. The kind that goes into something and makes it grow.
He is gentle and thoughtful, nurturing by default, and careful in a specific way — careful never to cause harm. That is a different instinct from being nice, and it shapes more of how he operates than it first appears.
So he is not drawn to sharpness. Someone with edges would put him permanently on watch for the moment he might hurt them or they might hurt him, and that is exhausting rather than exciting.
He wants something soft and growing. A kind, warm partner — a little artistic, easy-natured, unhurried — who he can look after and be looked after by without either of them keeping score. Softness that meets his own. Someone sweet enough that the carefulness gets to relax.
Jongho's 卯 holds exactly one stem: 乙 Wood. Most branches hold two or three, but 子, 卯 and 酉 are pure — one element, undiluted.
Against his 癸 day master that single stem is 식신 — the star of output, nurture and unforced creation. It is the gentlest of the ten gods and the one most associated with making things grow rather than acquiring them.
So there is nothing else in the position to argue with. No partner star, no pressure, no second reading. His spouse palace says one thing only, which is why the type comes out less complicated than most.
Jongho was born on 12 October 2000, in the 戌 month — mid autumn, dry earth, with 丙 sitting above it as his month stem.
《穷通宝鉴》 on 癸水 in this month reaches for 辛 to keep the source flowing and 甲 to break up the earth. His year pillar is 庚辰, so the Metal is present.
One more thing sits in the background: his 辰 year branch and 戌 month branch clash directly with each other. There is friction already built into his chart between those two positions, and his day branch — the 卯 with the single soft stem in it — is the part that stays out of it entirely.
Read from stem combination, branch harmony, clash and 원진. Why these four →
Both halves — 癸 and 戊 combine at the stem, 卯 and 戌 at the branch. The textbook answer, and it is Yeosang's day pillar.
卯 and 未 form half the 亥卯未 Wood frame, supporting what his spouse palace already holds, with 丁 adding warmth on top.
亥 completes that frame from the other side. 己 is the workable form of Earth, gentler than 戊 and closer to the tone of the pillar.
酉 against 卯 is a direct clash on the spouse palace, and it is Metal cutting Wood — the specific thing that damages what this position holds.
辰 with 卯 is 해. His own year branch is 辰, so this doubles something already present.
子 with 卯 is 형, the one punishment pair that involves no Earth at all.
Worth a look: 戊戌 is listed above as Jongho's cleanest match, and 癸卯 is listed as Yeosang's. The two pillars combine at both the stem and the branch in either direction. Yeosang's 戊戌 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 CHARTSJongho was born on 12 October 2000, giving him a 癸卯 day pillar and a 丙戌 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 kind and easy-natured. His 癸卯 day pillar is quiet water feeding a young branch, and his spouse palace holds a single stem — 식신, the star of nurture — so he is drawn to a warm, slightly artistic partner he can care for and grow alongside.
Anyone with sharp edges. It puts him permanently on watch for who might hurt whom, which wears him out rather than interesting him.
癸卯, from his birth date of 12 October 2000. In Saju the day pillar is the relationship indicator: the stem is the person and the branch is the spouse palace, 배우자궁.
戊戌 is the textbook answer, combining at both the stem and the branch. 丁未 and 己亥 each complete half the 亥卯未 frame with his branch. 酉 clashes with his spouse palace, 辰 forms 해, and 子 forms 형.
His 卯 branch holds exactly one stem, 乙 Wood, which is 식신 against his day master. 卯 is one of only three pure branches, so there is no second or third reading — the position says one thing, and that thing is nurture.