Double hour 7 of 12 · 時支
The Horse hour
午 Wu holds 11:00–12:59 on the modern civil clock. Tradition fitted the horse to it as noon, when the sun stands highest and yang is at its fullest.
One branch · four linked coordinates
What stays fixed in the Horse 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午 Wu
11:00–12:59
- Month opens芒种 Mángzhòng
Grain in Ear
- DirectionSouth
Branch sector 7 of 12
- Fixed phaseFire
Phase carried by the branch
五鼠遁 · day stem sets hour stem
Five complete Horse 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庚午Yang Metal Horse
- 02 · on 乙 Yi / 庚 Geng days壬午Yang Water Horse
- 03 · on 丙 Bing / 辛 Xin days甲午Yang Wood Horse
- 04 · on 丁 Ding / 壬 Ren days丙午Yang Fire Horse
- 05 · on 戊 Wu / 癸 Gui days戊午Yang Earth Horse
Two clock edges
The Horse hour changes at 11:00 and after 12:59
A time earlier than 11:00 belongs to the preceding branch; a time after 12:59 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 Horse branch clashes with Rat, forms Six Harmony with Goat, and belongs to the Fire trine with Tiger and Horse and Dog. These relationships come from fixed positions.