ENHYPEN Saju: All 6 Members' Day Masters, 3 Mountains and 2 Candles

ENHYPEN fans already know the group's story in numbers: a survival show debut in 2020, Billboard 200 chart toppers, and world tours that rank among the biggest in K-pop. Korean saju adds a different set of numbers, the six characters each member was born under. When we ran all six current members through our engine, one pattern stood out before anything else: three of the six are born under the same Day Master, 戊 Yang Earth, the mountain. Two of them even share the exact same Day Pillar.

This post walks through what that means, member by member, using only what holds no matter what hour each of them was born. If you want to compare your own chart as you read, a free saju reading gives you your Day Master and Five Elements count in about a minute.

A note on the lineup: this post covers the six current members, Jungwon, Jay, Jake, Sunghoon, Sunoo and Ni-ki.

How We Read These Charts

Every chart in this post comes from the Sajumuse saju engine, the same engine behind more than 260 paid Sajumuse reports. It calculates the pillars, the ten gods, the hidden stems, the twelve life stages and the special stars the same way it does for a customer's report.

No ENHYPEN member has an official birth time. So instead of guessing one, we ran each public birth date through all 12 possible birth hours and only report what stays the same in every one of them. That means the Year, Month and Day Pillars below are fixed, while things that depend on the hour, like Day Master strength and the helpful element, are given as a count, for example "weak in all 12 possible birth hours".

The readings are written by our Korean saju counselor, certified in Korea as a Myeongri Psychological Counselor (Level 1) and Family Psychological Counselor (Level 1). Birth dates are public profile dates. None of the members has had a reading with us, and nothing here is a prediction about anyone's private life.

All 6 ENHYPEN Members at a Glance

All six day pillars were also checked against the standard day count formula and matched. Jungwon was born a few days after Ipchun, so his saju year is 甲申, the Wood Monkey; our post on why the saju year changes at Ipchun explains that boundary. The three 2002 members, Jay, Jake and Sunghoon, share the 壬午 Water Horse year pillar.

The Group's Five Elements

Add up the six visible characters of each member's three certain pillars and you get 36 characters in total:

Fire, Earth and Water carry the group in equal parts. Fire and Water normally pull against each other, and Earth sits between them as the buffer. With three Earth Day Masters, the buffer is built into the team itself.

Wood and Metal are the thin elements: Wood starts things and Metal cuts and finishes them. Groups with this shape tend to be strong at holding a stage and a concept, and lean on outside structure for the sharp edits. Our guide to missing elements in saju explains what a thin element does.

Three Mountains: Jungwon, Jay and Sunoo

戊 is the Yang Earth Day Master, pictured as a mountain. It is steady, hard to push, and other people organize themselves around it. Having three of them in one six-member group is unusual. But our engine shows three very different mountains.

Jungwon: The Mountain With a Sun Inside

Jungwon's Day Pillar is 戊午, Earth sitting on Fire. In the engine's twelve life stages, his Day Master sits at 제왕, the emperor stage, the peak of its own strength cycle. His month is 丙寅, a Fire stem on a Wood branch, so the season he was born into feeds Fire, and Fire feeds Earth. In the language of the ten gods, that is a chart heavy in resource stars, the stars of being taught, backed and trusted.

On strength, the engine reads him as slightly weak in 8 of the 12 possible birth hours and borderline strong in the other 4, with Fire and Earth as the helpful elements in most of them. A leader whose own chart asks for support is not a contradiction. It often describes someone who leads by listening and keeps the room stable.

His year and month branches both carry the Travel Star, 역마, in our engine's output. Two Travel Stars in the first half of a chart is the classic signature of a life lived on the move, which suits a leader of a group that tours worldwide.

Jay: Same Day Pillar, Opposite Strength

Here is the detail that makes ENHYPEN unusual. Jay's Day Pillar is also 戊午. Same Day Master, same branch, same emperor stage. But his month is 甲辰, an Earth month, and his year is 壬午, another Fire branch. The result is the opposite of Jungwon's balance: our engine reads Jay as strong in all 12 possible birth hours, with Water and Metal as his helpful elements in 9 of them.

So two members carry the same core self, and one needs support while the other needs an outlet. Charts like that tend to fit rather than compete. Our post on two people with the same Day Master goes deeper into this pattern.

Jay's chart also shows no Metal at all, not even hidden. Metal is the output element for Earth, so a strong mountain like this tends to look for an outlet in craft.

Sunoo: The Most Earth in the Group

Sunoo's three pillars hold four Earth characters out of six: 未, 戊, 戊 and 辰. His Day Pillar 戊辰 sits on an Earth branch, and his month 戊午 is another Yang Earth stem on Fire. Our engine reads him as strong in all 12 possible birth hours, and Wood with Water as the helpful pair in 11 of them.

His year branch carries the Benefactor Star, 천을귀인, and his day branch carries both 홍염 (the red flame star of personal charm) and the Flower Canopy. Warmth with a strong core is what this combination usually reads as: someone easy to like, who is also very hard to move once he has decided.

Jake and Ni-ki: Two Candles

The other Day Master that appears twice is 丁, Yin Fire, the candle or lamp. Where the mountains hold the group in place, the candles light it.

Jake: A Candle on Deep Water

Jake's chart is 壬午 / 辛亥 / 丁亥. Three Water characters surround a single small flame, and the engine reads him as weak in all 12 possible birth hours, with Fire and Wood as the helpful elements in every one. That is one of the clearest readings in the group.

Two details soften it. Both his month and day branches carry 천을귀인, the Benefactor Star, read as help arriving from other people. And Wood is hidden inside both 亥 branches as 甲, the resource that feeds his Fire.

Ni-ki: Every Element, and Three Peach Blossom Branches

Ni-ki, the youngest, has the most balanced chart in ENHYPEN: 乙酉 / 戊子 / 丁卯 holds all five elements. The engine reads him as slightly weak in 10 of 12 possible birth hours, with Fire and Wood as the helpful pair in most of them.

What jumps out is his branches. 酉, 子 and 卯 are three of the four peach blossom branches in saju, and our engine flags the Peach Blossom star on all three of his certain pillars. Peach blossom is often misread as a romance star. In practice it marks visibility and magnetism, the quality that makes people look twice. His year pillar adds three scholar and noble stars in the engine's list (천을귀인, 문창귀인 and 학당귀인), which are traditionally read as quick learning.

Sunghoon: The Only Metal

Sunghoon is the group's single 庚 Yang Metal Day Master, a sword or a blade of ice. His chart, 壬午 / 壬子 / 庚戌, is heavy in Water, three characters out of six, and Water is the element Metal pours itself into. For a Metal Day Master, Water is the output star, expression and performance.

Our engine reads him as weak in all 12 possible birth hours, with Metal and Earth as his helpful elements in every one. His Day Pillar 庚戌 is one of the Powerhouse pillars, 괴강, a pillar associated with a sharp, controlled intensity. A Metal chart that pours out into Water and holds itself together with a 괴강 Day Pillar is a fitting picture for a former figure skater: discipline on the inside, flow on the outside.

How the Six Fit Together

• Mountains and candles. Fire generates Earth. The two 丁 members feed the three 戊 members in the generating cycle, and the three mountains give the candles shelter from the wind. This is the core dynamic of the group on paper.
• Sunghoon is the outlet. Earth generates Metal, so the three mountains naturally pour into the one Metal member. In group terms, he is where the group's stored energy becomes something sharp and visible.
• Water balances Fire. Jake and Sunghoon carry most of the group's Water. The 2002 trio all sit on a 午 Fire year branch, so Fire and Water are paired inside that age line too.
• Jay and Jungwon are mirror images. Same Day Pillar, opposite strength. It is rare to see that so clearly in one group.

Our BTS saju compatibility breakdown uses the same method for another group.

2026 and 2027 in Their Charts

The current year, 2026, is 丙午, a Fire Horse year. For the three Earth Day Masters, 丙 Fire is a resource star, the energy of support and learning, and the engine flags the General Star, 장성살, on Jay's chart this year. For the two candles, Jake and Ni-ki, 2026 brings a Fire peer year and the 건록 stage, which the engine reads as their own element arriving in strength. For Sunghoon, 2026 Fire is his officer star.

Next year, 2027, is 丁未, Fire over Earth. Our engine marks it as a Saddle Star year, 반안살, for Jay, Jake and Sunghoon, the star traditionally read as a steadier footing after a busy cycle. These are tendencies in the chart, not forecasts of events, and the 2027 Fire Goat year guide explains how that year reads for every sign.

Find Your Own Place Among Them

1. Run a free saju reading with your birth date, and your birth time if you know it.
2. Note your Day Master. If it is 戊, you share the mountain with Jungwon, Jay and Sunoo; if it is 丁, the candle with Jake and Ni-ki; if it is 庚, the sword with Sunghoon.
3. Count your elements across the Year, Month and Day Pillars and see which one is missing.
4. Check the generating cycle: Wood feeds Fire, Fire feeds Earth, Earth feeds Metal, Metal feeds Water, Water feeds Wood. The member whose Day Master you feed, or who feeds yours, is the one your chart naturally pairs with.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Jungwon's Day Master in saju?

Jungwon's Day Master is 戊, Yang Earth, on a 戊午 Day Pillar. Because he was born on 9 February 2004, after Ipchun, his saju year is 甲申, Wood Monkey, not the previous year.

Do Jay and Jungwon really have the same Day Pillar?

Yes. Both were born on a 戊午 day. Their charts differ in the year and month pillars, which is why our engine reads Jay as strong in all 12 possible birth hours and Jungwon as slightly weak in most of them.

Which ENHYPEN member has all five elements?

Ni-ki. His three certain pillars, 乙酉, 戊子 and 丁卯, hold Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water. He also has three of the four peach blossom branches.

Do you know the members' birth times?

No. None is officially published, so we ran each birth date through all 12 possible birth hours and only report what holds in every case.

Get Your Own Chart Read the Same Way

The full engine chart, the ten gods, the life stages and the year ahead go into every Premium report, with your exact birth time added. If you want your own chart read this way, the Premium Saju Report covers it in full, written by the same Korean saju counselor.