Eating God (食神) meaning

What is Eating God?

Eating God (食神) is the character with the same polarity among the element your Day Master produces. Sik (食) means to eat and sin (神) means spirit or energy, so it is called 'the energy that brings good fortune with food.' It stands for what you create, along with expression, talent, ease, and health. As a person, it points to children (in a woman's chart) or those who work under you. Because Eating God is the root that produces wealth, there is a saying, Siksin Saengjae, meaning the Eating God gives birth to wealth.

Personality and traits

People with a clear Eating God are relaxed and optimistic. You enjoy eating, making, and having fun, and that talent flows out naturally. Your words are soft and you put people at ease. On the other hand, your power to push hard in a hurry is weak, and you can let chances slip by choosing the comfortable path.

Eating God in each pillar

In the Year Pillar

An Eating God in the Year Pillar is read as a sign that your family was comfortable, or that you lacked nothing to eat and enjoy as a child.

In the Month Pillar

An Eating God in the Month Pillar is a flow of making a living from talent. Work that creates something suits you well: food, the arts, education, and content.

In the Day Branch

An Eating God in the Day Branch means your spouse is an easygoing person who takes good care of you. The home feels relaxed and has good fortune with food.

In the Hour Pillar

An Eating God in the Hour Pillar means good fortune with children and ease in later life. It is an energy of enjoying your hobbies and talents more as you get older.

When you have a lot of Eating God

Three or more Eating Gods scatter your talents and make it hard to focus on one. Leaning too far toward eating and enjoying can also leave the body feeling heavy. Pick one thing and dig into it for a long time, and you become one of the best in that field.

When you have no Eating God

Without an Eating God, you are clumsy at expressing yourself and not quite sure how to enjoy things. In return, you are diligent and good at self-restraint. If you have a Hurting Officer, it handles expression instead.

Love and relationships

In love, Eating God is easygoing and affectionate. You like a relationship where you eat good food together and spend time without hurrying. Your heart for looking after your partner is big, so many of these relationships last a long time.

Work and career

Eating God comes alive in work that makes and shares something: cooking, the arts, writing, education, and planning. A position with no rush, where your talent shows directly in the results, is good for you. When Eating God connects to the Wealth stars, talent turns into money.

Which characters count as Eating God, by Day Master

Find your Day Master (the heavenly stem of your birth day) in the first column to see which stems and branches are Eating God for you. Branches are read by their main hidden stem.

Day Pillars whose Day Branch is Eating God

These Day Pillars carry this star in the spouse seat, the branch of the birth day.

• 丑Jeong-chukFire Ox
• 戌Byeong-sulFire Dog
• 寅Im-inWater Tiger
• 卯Gye-myoWater Rabbit
• 未Jeong-miFire Goat
• 申Mu-sinEarth Monkey
• 酉Gi-yuEarth Rooster
• 辰Byeong-jinFire Dragon

FAQ

What is the difference between Eating God and Hurting Officer?

Both are the energy you give birth to, but Eating God shares your polarity, so it is soft and easygoing, while Hurting Officer has the opposite polarity, so it is sharp and showy. Eating God is read as the power to create steadily, and Hurting Officer as expression that stands out.

Does having an Eating God mean I will gain weight?

The saying exists because Eating God stands for good fortune with food and ease. It describes a tendency, not a fixed body. Since you like to enjoy things, make exercise something to enjoy too.