Sexagenary cycle · position 05 of 60
戊辰
Yang Earth Dragon
This is one fixed meeting of a Heavenly Stem and an Earthly Branch. The stem supplies yang Earth; the branch supplies the Dragon and its twelve-position time coordinate.
Two coordinates, read together
What is fixed inside 戊辰
A pillar keeps the same stem and branch wherever it is used. What changes is its placement—as a year, month, day or hour—and the other pillars it is compared with.
A separate traditional association · 纳音
Great forest wood
Na Yin assigns one named image and phase to every pair of consecutive cycle pillars. It sits beside the visible stem and branch coordinates; it does not replace either one.
大林木
- English association
- Great forest wood
- Associated phase
- 木 Wood
- Shares this Na Yin
- 己巳 Yin Earth Snake
The fixed branch register
The 辰 Chen coordinate
The same branch names an animal, a double hour, a solar-term month and a compass sector. Those coordinates remain attached to 辰in every pillar that contains it.
- Animal
- Dragon
- Branch polarity
- Yang
- Double hour
- 07:00–08:59
- Month opens at
- 清明 Clear and Bright
- Direction
- East-southeast
Inside this branch · 藏干
Hidden stems carried by 辰
The relationship name below compares each interior stem with 戊 Wu as the reference stem.
- 01
戊
Primary interior stem
比肩 Friend - 02
乙
Middle interior stem
正官 Direct Officer - 03
癸
Residual interior stem
正财 Direct Wealth
One address in the sixty-position sequence
Where 戊辰 returns
The pair is position 5. Its annual appearances repeat every sixty years; the same pillar can also occur at the month, day or hour scale under those cycles' own rules.
- Cycle position
- 05 / 60
- Ten-position decade · 旬
- 甲子
- Stem stage at this branch
- 病 Sickness
Annual returns in the supported range
Every occurrence from 1901 through 2099 is shown.
- 1928戊辰
- 1988戊辰
- 2048戊辰
A coordinate, not a complete reading
What this pillar establishes
戊辰 fixes one stem–branch identity. A chart supplies the placement and comparisons that make that identity usable.
The pair fixes
- Yang Earth through 戊
- The Dragon branch and its time coordinates
- 大林木 Great forest wood as its Na Yin
- Position 5 in the repeating sequence
The chart still decides
Whether the pair is the year, month, day or hour pillar; which stem is the Day Master; and how the surrounding stems and branches relate to it. The pair alone does not rank a personality, promise an outcome or stand in for the other three pillars.
See how four pillars form a chart →