Sexagenary cycle · position 55 of 60
戊午
Yang Earth Horse
This is one fixed meeting of a Heavenly Stem and an Earthly Branch. The stem supplies yang Earth; the branch supplies the Horse and its twelve-position time coordinate.
Two coordinates, read together
What is fixed inside 戊午
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
Fire in the sky
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.
天上火
- English association
- Fire in the sky
- Associated phase
- 火 Fire
- Shares this Na Yin
- 己未 Yin Earth Goat
The fixed branch register
The 午 Wu coordinate
The same branch names an animal, a double hour, a solar-term month and a compass sector. Those coordinates remain attached to 午in every pillar that contains it.
- Animal
- Horse
- Branch polarity
- Yang
- Double hour
- 11:00–12:59
- Month opens at
- 芒种 Grain in Ear
- Direction
- South
Inside this branch · 藏干
Hidden stems carried by 午
The relationship name below compares each interior stem with 戊 Wu as the reference stem.
- 01
丁
Primary interior stem
正印 Direct Resource - 02
己
Middle interior stem
劫财 Rob Wealth
One address in the sixty-position sequence
Where 戊午 returns
The pair is position 55. 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
- 55 / 60
- Ten-position decade · 旬
- 甲寅
- Stem stage at this branch
- 墓 Tomb
Annual returns in the supported range
Every occurrence from 1901 through 2099 is shown.
- 1918戊午
- 1978戊午
- 2038戊午
- 2098戊午
A coordinate, not a complete reading
What this pillar establishes
戊午 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 Horse branch and its time coordinates
- 天上火 Fire in the sky as its Na Yin
- Position 55 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 →