Double hour 8 of 12 · 時支
The Goat hour
未 Wei holds 13:00–14:59 on the modern civil clock. Tradition fitted the goat to it as the hour goats graze best, after the worst of the heat.
One branch · four linked coordinates
What stays fixed in the Goat period
The clock selects one Earthly Branch. The same branch also carries a phase, compass direction and solar-term month; those links are structural coordinates, not extra personality labels.
- Hour branch未 Wei
13:00–14:59
- Month opens小暑 Xiǎoshǔ
Minor Heat
- DirectionSouth-southwest
Branch sector 8 of 12
- Fixed phaseEarth
Phase carried by the branch
五鼠遁 · day stem sets hour stem
Five complete Goat hour pillars are possible
The branch is fixed by the clock. The stem advances from the Day Master, so the ten day stems fall into five rule pairs and produce five possible hour pillars here.
- 01 · on 甲 Jia / 己 Ji days辛未Yin Metal Goat
- 02 · on 乙 Yi / 庚 Geng days癸未Yin Water Goat
- 03 · on 丙 Bing / 辛 Xin days乙未Yin Wood Goat
- 04 · on 丁 Ding / 壬 Ren days丁未Yin Fire Goat
- 05 · on 戊 Wu / 癸 Gui days己未Yin Earth Goat
Two clock edges
The Goat hour changes at 13:00 and after 14:59
A time earlier than 13:00 belongs to the preceding branch; a time after 14:59 belongs to the next. This site reads the local civil time entered and does not silently apply longitude, daylight-saving or apparent-solar-time corrections.
Known time
A recorded local time selects this branch and allows the hour stem to be derived from the day stem.
Unknown time
The hour pillar stays absent. Assuming noon or another default would invent two of the chart’s eight characters.
The same branch geometry at every scale
Its clash, harmony and trine do not change with the clock
The Goat branch clashes with Ox, forms Six Harmony with Horse, and belongs to the Wood trine with Pig and Rabbit and Goat. These relationships come from fixed positions.