Metal cuts Wood. If you are a Metal Day Master, Gyeong (庚, the sword) or Sin (辛, the jewel), a Wood Day Master, Gap or Eul, is your Wealth: the element you shape, prune and work on. You see their potential instantly, along with the twelve branches that need trimming. This pairing has real pull. You bring clarity to their sprawl, and they bring growth and idealism to your precision.
Metal controls Wood in the controlling cycle, so Wood is Metal's Wealth.
BomYou see who they could become, and you help them get there. That kind of clear-eyed love is precious.
Chemistry
From your side, Wood is Indirect Wealth (편재) if you share polarity and Direct Wealth (정재) if you do not. Wealth means what you manage, enjoy and invest in. Wood partners are hopeful, principled and full of plans, which makes your world feel bigger. The heavenly combination here is Gyeong with Eul (乙庚合): the sword wrapped in a flowering vine, strength and softness in one image, a famous romantic match. Sin with Gap is the other partner-star pairing, a jeweler's tools and a fine piece of wood, careful craftsmanship.
Friction
You can cut too deep. Metal's honesty, standards and quick judgments can feel brutal to a Wood person who is still growing into their ideas. Gyeong with Gap is a heavenly stem clash (甲庚沖), axe against pine, two stubborn forces. Sin with Eul is another clash (乙辛沖), scissors and a flower: elegant, sharp, and prone to wounding comments. Wood may grow away from you quietly instead of arguing, and you might not notice until the shade is gone.
In love
In love you are the editor and they are the author. It works when your feedback serves their dream rather than replacing it. Compliment the growth before you suggest the cut. Wood people bloom under respect and wither under constant critique.
As friends
As friends, you help them make their messy plan real, and they remind you that life is not a quality inspection.
YeonNot every branch needs cutting. Put the shears down and let something grow wild for once.
How to make it work
Water is the bridge: Metal feeds Water and Water feeds Wood. Calm talks, patience and emotional openness turn your sharpness into nourishment. Ask before you prune. Some branches are just growing in a direction you did not expect.
The Day Master pairs
Read from the Metal side, the four Day Master pairings here are Gyeong with Gap (Indirect Wealth), Gyeong with Eul (Direct Wealth), Sin with Gap (Direct Wealth), and Sin with Eul (Indirect Wealth), and each of those pairings links to its own compatibility page.
Is Metal good with Wood in saju?
Metal controls Wood, so there is a shaping dynamic. Gyeong with Eul is a heavenly combination, one of the most romantic pairings in saju.
Which Metal and Wood pairs clash?
Gyeong with Gap and Sin with Eul are two of the four classic heavenly stem clashes, with more friction than the opposite-polarity pairs.
Read it from the other side
Wood and Metal, from the Wood side. New to the scoring? How compatibility works.