Double hour 9 of 12 · 時支
The Monkey hour
申 Shen holds 15:00–16:59 on the modern civil clock. Tradition fitted the monkey to it as the hour monkeys grow lively and call across the trees.
One branch · four linked coordinates
What stays fixed in the Monkey 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申 Shen
15:00–16:59
- Month opens立秋 Lìqiū
Start of Autumn
- DirectionWest-southwest
Branch sector 9 of 12
- Fixed phaseMetal
Phase carried by the branch
五鼠遁 · day stem sets hour stem
Five complete Monkey 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壬申Yang Water Monkey
- 02 · on 乙 Yi / 庚 Geng days甲申Yang Wood Monkey
- 03 · on 丙 Bing / 辛 Xin days丙申Yang Fire Monkey
- 04 · on 丁 Ding / 壬 Ren days戊申Yang Earth Monkey
- 05 · on 戊 Wu / 癸 Gui days庚申Yang Metal Monkey
Two clock edges
The Monkey hour changes at 15:00 and after 16:59
A time earlier than 15:00 belongs to the preceding branch; a time after 16:59 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 Monkey branch clashes with Tiger, forms Six Harmony with Snake, and belongs to the Water trine with Monkey and Rat and Dragon. These relationships come from fixed positions.