Double hour 3 of 12 · 時支
Tiger Hour 寅时 03:00–04:59: Secret Animal & Meaning
The Tiger hour 寅时 runs 03:00–04:59. Born then, your secret animal is the Tiger; the hour branch is 寅 (Yang Wood), and the hour stem follows the day stem.
Traditional secret-animal reading
The Tiger hour’s inner image
Tiger hour carries Yang Wood and the branch that opens spring. In the secret-animal reading, this is the first movement of an inner intention toward expression. The emphasis is on emergence: a direction begins to take shape before the full surroundings of that intention are visible.
In hour folklore, this is the hour tigers hunt, the most dangerous stretch of the night.
One branch · four linked coordinates
What stays fixed in the Tiger period
- Hour branch寅 Yin
03:00–04:59
- Month opens立春 Lìchūn
Start of Spring
- DirectionEast-northeast
Branch sector 3 of 12
- Fixed phaseWood
Phase carried by the branch
五鼠遁 · day stem sets hour stem
Five complete Tiger hour pillars are possible
- 01 · on 甲 Jia / 己 Ji days丙寅Yang Fire Tiger
- 02 · on 乙 Yi / 庚 Geng days戊寅Yang Earth Tiger
- 03 · on 丙 Bing / 辛 Xin days庚寅Yang Metal Tiger
- 04 · on 丁 Ding / 壬 Ren days壬寅Yang Water Tiger
- 05 · on 戊 Wu / 癸 Gui days甲寅Yang Wood Tiger
Two clock edges
The Tiger hour changes at 03:00 and after 04:59
The Tiger interval begins at 03:00 and includes 04:59. 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 Tiger branch clashes with Monkey, forms Six Harmony with Pig, and belongs to the Fire trine with Tiger and Horse and Dog. These relationships come from fixed positions.