Double hour 4 of 12 · 時支
Rabbit Hour 卯时 05:00–06:59: Secret Animal & Meaning
The Rabbit hour 卯时 runs 05:00–06:59. Born then, your secret animal is the Rabbit; the hour branch is 卯 (Yin Wood), and the hour stem follows the day stem.
Traditional secret-animal reading
The Rabbit hour’s inner image
Rabbit hour belongs to Yin Wood at the centre of the spring sequence. Its secret-animal image is a growing pattern becoming more finely articulated, with attention moving along several small connections. What matters is the shaping of expression, rather than the force of an initial beginning.
In hour folklore, this is the hour of the jade rabbit, which the moon was said to hold as it set.
One branch · four linked coordinates
What stays fixed in the Rabbit period
- Hour branch卯 Mao
05:00–06:59
- Month opens惊蛰 Jīngzhé
Awakening of Insects
- DirectionEast
Branch sector 4 of 12
- Fixed phaseWood
Phase carried by the branch
五鼠遁 · day stem sets hour stem
Five complete Rabbit hour pillars are possible
- 01 · on 甲 Jia / 己 Ji days丁卯Yin Fire Rabbit
- 02 · on 乙 Yi / 庚 Geng days己卯Yin Earth Rabbit
- 03 · on 丙 Bing / 辛 Xin days辛卯Yin Metal Rabbit
- 04 · on 丁 Ding / 壬 Ren days癸卯Yin Water Rabbit
- 05 · on 戊 Wu / 癸 Gui days乙卯Yin Wood Rabbit
Two clock edges
The Rabbit hour changes at 05:00 and after 06:59
The Rabbit interval begins at 05:00 and includes 06:59. 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 Rabbit branch clashes with Rooster, forms Six Harmony with Dog, and belongs to the Wood trine with Pig and Rabbit and Goat. These relationships come from fixed positions.