Eric is The Oak Tiger

This is the day pillar only. It is fixed by the calendar date of birth, which is public — so it can be calculated with confidence. The hour pillar cannot: Eric's birth time is not published, and guessing at one would produce a chart that looks precise and is not.

What the day pillar says is character rather than circumstance.

The day pillar is read as two halves. The stem is what a person is made of; the branch is what they are standing on. Here the stem is yang Wood — the wood that does not bend to be liked — growth with a direction already chosen, and a reluctance to be pruned by anyone else's hand.

The branch is the Tiger: restless ground — a footing that wants to begin, and finds the middle of things harder than the start.

Both halves push outward, which makes this a chart with very little brake on it. The strength is that nothing has to be talked into starting. The cost is that there is nobody inside the chart arguing for waiting.