What ATEEZ San's 癸亥 day pillar says about his ideal partner — read from his birth chart, not from an interview.
In Korean astrology, San's ideal partner is bright rather than deep. His 癸亥 day pillar — the part of a Saju chart that describes what someone is drawn to — is water on water with no boundary anywhere in it, so he is drawn to someone warm and lively enough to give all that depth a centre to orient around.
San's day pillar is deep water sitting on more deep water. There is no edge to it and nothing containing it. Sensitive, intuitive, and much larger on the inside than he lets on.
He gives endlessly, and that is the problem rather than the virtue. Water without a bank spreads until it is thin, and he loses himself in the people he loves without noticing it happening.
So more depth is not what he needs. Another person with the same boundless quality would just be two people dissolving into each other very sincerely.
He is drawn to fire. Someone bright, warm and lively, with real spark to them — a partner who gives his depth a centre to orient around and pulls him up to the surface where he can be seen. A sunny presence he can organise himself around. Not someone who contains him. Someone who gives him a reason to have a shape.
San's 亥 holds 戊 Earth, 甲 Wood, and 壬 Water as the principal.
Against his 癸 day master those are 정관, 상관 and 겁재. The principal stem is 壬 — more water, the largest form of it — which is why this pillar reads as boundless rather than merely deep.
There is no 재성 in the position. The 戊 at the front is the one thing in there that would hold a shape, and it sits in the weakest slot of the branch. So the containment he is drawn to genuinely has to come from a partner. It is not something the chart can supply itself.
San was born on 10 July 1999, in the 未 month — late summer, hot dry earth, which is the one thing in his chart working against all that water.
《穷通宝鉴》 on 癸水 in this month reaches for 庚 and 辛 to keep the source flowing. He has 辛 sitting directly above as his month stem, so the water keeps being replenished — which is support, but it is also more of the same.
What the chart is short of is Fire. There is none in any stem, only 丁 buried in his 未 branch. For a Water day master, Fire is what gives the water somewhere to go.
Read from stem combination, branch harmony, clash and 원진. Why these four →
Both halves — 癸 and 戊 combine at the stem, 寅 and 亥 at the branch — and 戊 is the one element that gives water a bank. Structurally the strongest match here.
丙 is his direct partner star and it is the brightest Fire in the system, with the same 寅亥 branch harmony. This is the one the reading is actually describing.
Fire again, with 卯 and 亥 forming half the 亥卯未 frame alongside his month branch. Warmer and quieter than 丙寅.
巳 against 亥 is a direct clash on the spouse palace — and 巳 carries the 丙 he needs, so this is the same painful pattern of right element, wrong position.
申 with 亥 is 해, and it feeds still more water into a chart that has too much.
Another 亥 makes 자형, self-punishment. Two boundless people is not a match, it is the same problem twice.
Mingi is the other 癸 day master in ATEEZ, and his branch is 巳 — the exact branch listed above as San's clash. Same day master, opposite spouse palace. Mingi's 癸巳 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 CHARTSSan was born on 10 July 1999, giving him a 癸亥 day pillar and a 辛未 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 bright and lively. His 癸亥 day pillar is water sitting on water with nothing containing it, so he is drawn to a warm partner with real spark — someone who gives his depth a centre to orient around rather than matching it.
Another person with the same boundless quality. Two people like that dissolve into each other very sincerely and neither ends up with a shape.
癸亥, from his birth date of 10 July 1999. In Saju the day pillar is the relationship indicator: the stem is the person and the branch is the spouse palace, 배우자궁.
戊寅 combines at both the stem and the branch and brings the one element that gives water a bank. 丙寅 pairs his partner star with the same harmony, and 丁卯 also fits. 巳 clashes with his spouse palace, 申 forms 해, and another 亥 makes 자형.
His 亥 branch holds 戊 Earth, 甲 Wood and 壬 Water — 정관, 상관 and 겁재 against his day master, with 壬 as the principal. There is no partner star in it, and the only stem that would give it an edge sits in the weakest slot.