Yang Wood and Yang Metal
You are a Yang Wood Day Master, the tall tree; they are Yang Metal, the raw ore.
The short version
A Yang Wood Day Master meeting a Yang Metal Day Master is a pairing that pushes back.
Between a Yang Wood Day Master and a Yang Metal Day Master, they tend to steer you.
What each of you brings
Yang Wood leads with initiative, integrity and protectiveness; Yang Metal leads with decisiveness, loyalty and honesty.
Next to Yang Metal, a Yang Wood Day Master supports a partner like a trunk supports branches.
Next to Yang Wood, a Yang Metal Day Master is fiercely loyal once committed.
Where it rubs
The growth edge for Yang Wood is bending when the plan has to change; for Yang Metal it is softening the delivery without dulling the truth.
At work, Yang Wood starts and structures new projects — which Yang Metal will notice before anyone else does.
At work, Yang Metal cuts through noise to the decision — and Yang Wood tends to lean on exactly that.
The element current
Yang Wood is wood and Yang Metal is metal: metal controls wood, which is why their offhand remarks stay with you longer than they meant them to.
Do a Yang Wood Day Master and a Yang Metal Day Master get along?
Saju reads a Yang Wood and Yang Metal pairing as a pairing that pushes back, which describes the current between two stems rather than whether two particular people should be together.