Double hour 12 of 12 · 時支
Pig Hour 亥时 21:00–22:59: Secret Animal & Meaning
The Pig hour 亥时 runs 21:00–22:59. Born then, your secret animal is the Pig; the hour branch is 亥 (Yin Water), and the hour stem follows the day stem.
Traditional secret-animal reading
The Pig hour’s inner image
Pig hour carries Yin Water and opens the winter sequence. Its secret-animal image turns inward toward a source rather than outward toward a finished display. With Wood also held in the branch, the symbolism includes a beginning kept within retreat: something quiet can still contain an opening.
In hour folklore, this is the hour pigs sleep most soundly, when the house has gone quiet.
One branch · four linked coordinates
What stays fixed in the Pig period
- Hour branch亥 Hai
21:00–22:59
- Month opens立冬 Lìdōng
Start of Winter
- DirectionNorth-northwest
Branch sector 12 of 12
- Fixed phaseWater
Phase carried by the branch
五鼠遁 · day stem sets hour stem
Five complete Pig hour pillars are possible
- 01 · on 甲 Jia / 己 Ji days乙亥Yin Wood Pig
- 02 · on 乙 Yi / 庚 Geng days丁亥Yin Fire Pig
- 03 · on 丙 Bing / 辛 Xin days己亥Yin Earth Pig
- 04 · on 丁 Ding / 壬 Ren days辛亥Yin Metal Pig
- 05 · on 戊 Wu / 癸 Gui days癸亥Yin Water Pig
Two clock edges
The Pig hour changes at 21:00 and after 22:59
The Pig interval begins at 21:00 and includes 22:59. Use the recorded local civil clock time.
The same branch geometry at every scale
Its clash, harmony and trine do not change with the clock
The Pig branch clashes with Snake, forms Six Harmony with Tiger, and belongs to the Wood trine with Pig and Rabbit and Goat. These relationships come from fixed positions.