Ten Gods

십신 · 十神

The ten possible relationships between your day master and any other character in the chart.

They are not deities. The name is traditional and slightly misleading: a "god" here is just a label for a relationship.

Every other character in your chart either matches your element, feeds it, is fed by it, controls it, or is controlled by it — five possibilities, each of which splits by whether the polarity matches yours. Five times two gives ten.

This is the layer that turns a chart from a list of elements into a description of a life. It is where career, money, authority, creativity and relationships actually live.