Ten Gods · 七杀 Qi Sha
Pressure & Drive
Seven Killings is the relationship formed when a stem of the controlling element shares the Day Master’s polarity. The number is literal and checkable: counting through the ten Heavenly Stems from your Day Master, this stem always falls in the seventh position. Counting from Jia — Jia, Yi, Bing, Ding, Wu, Ji, Geng — Geng is seventh, and Geng is the Seven Killings stem for a Jia Day Master.
Published 2026-07-27 · Energy Archetype Editorial
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A stem of the element that controls the Day Master, with the same polarity. Metal controls Wood, so for a Jia (Yang Wood) Day Master, Geng (Yang Metal) is Seven Killings.
| If your Day Master is | Seven Killings is | Because that stem is |
|---|---|---|
| Jia 甲 (Yang Wood) | Geng 庚 | Yang Metal |
| Yi 乙 (Yin Wood) | Xin 辛 | Yin Metal |
| Bing 丙 (Yang Fire) | Ren 壬 | Yang Water |
| Ding 丁 (Yin Fire) | Gui 癸 | Yin Water |
| Wu 戊 (Yang Earth) | Jia 甲 | Yang Wood |
| Ji 己 (Yin Earth) | Yi 乙 | Yin Wood |
| Geng 庚 (Yang Metal) | Bing 丙 | Yang Fire |
| Xin 辛 (Yin Metal) | Ding 丁 | Yin Fire |
| Ren 壬 (Yang Water) | Wu 戊 | Yang Earth |
| Gui 癸 (Yin Water) | Ji 己 | Yin Earth |
This table is generated directly from the calculator’s own relationship function, so it always matches the charts the site produces. Hidden stems inside the Earthly Branches can also carry this relationship even when no visible stem does.
Balanced reading
These are interpretive prompts to compare with lived evidence, not traits the chart establishes.
Acting decisively when conditions are genuinely unfavourable.
Tolerating pressure that would stall a slower approach.
Cutting a problem down to the part that must be solved first.
Leadership that does not require being liked in the moment.
Under pressure
A relationship is not a defect. These are the patterns traditional commentary watches for when this category dominates.
Common misreadings
It does not, and this site will not present it that way. The name is a dramatic classical label for unmediated pressure on the Day Master. Energy Archetype does not publish predictions about safety, illness, conflict or mortality.
Traditional commentary frequently treats it as a source of resilience and decisiveness when the chart can carry it. Difficulty and harm are not the same claim.
In your chart
The free result lists the visible Ten Gods for each pillar. The paid PDF adds the relationships carried by hidden stems inside each Earthly Branch, using the site’s disclosed weighting model, and reports which categories carry the most weight.
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“Gods” renders 神, a word for a symbolic role rather than a deity. English material differs on almost every name: 七杀 appears as Seven Killings, Pressure & Drive and other variants. Energy Archetype states both so a reader can match this page against other sources.
Questions
Because the stem sits seven positions along the ten-stem cycle from the Day Master, and classical writing used forceful imagery for pressure that arrives without the mediating polarity difference found in Direct Officer. The name is a label inside the system, not a description of events.
Both are stems of the element that controls the Day Master. Seven Killings shares the Day Master’s polarity and is read as direct, unbuffered pressure; Direct Officer has the opposite polarity and is read as structured responsibility.
Yes. Seven Killings (七杀) is the traditional label and Pressure & Drive is the plain-English name used in Energy Archetype reports. They refer to the same relationship; the second is an editorial translation chosen for readability.
Ten Gods categories are traditional symbolic relationships. They are not predictions, diagnoses, or statements about income, health, safety or another person.