Sexagenary cycle · position 23 of 60
丙戌
Yang Fire Dog
This is one fixed meeting of a Heavenly Stem and an Earthly Branch. The stem supplies yang Fire; the branch supplies the Dog and its twelve-position time coordinate.
Two coordinates, read together
What is fixed inside 丙戌
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
Earth on the roof
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.
屋上土
- English association
- Earth on the roof
- Associated phase
- 土 Earth
- Shares this Na Yin
- 丁亥 Yin Fire Pig
The fixed branch register
The 戌 Xu coordinate
The same branch names an animal, a double hour, a solar-term month and a compass sector. Those coordinates remain attached to 戌in every pillar that contains it.
- Animal
- Dog
- Branch polarity
- Yang
- Double hour
- 19:00–20:59
- Month opens at
- 寒露 Cold Dew
- Direction
- West-northwest
Inside this branch · 藏干
Hidden stems carried by 戌
The relationship name below compares each interior stem with 丙 Bing as the reference stem.
- 01
戊
Primary interior stem
食神 Eating God - 02
辛
Middle interior stem
正财 Direct Wealth - 03
丁
Residual interior stem
劫财 Rob Wealth
One address in the sixty-position sequence
Where 丙戌 returns
The pair is position 23. 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
- 23 / 60
- Ten-position decade · 旬
- 甲申
- Stem stage at this branch
- 长生 Growth
Annual returns in the supported range
Every occurrence from 1901 through 2099 is shown.
- 1946丙戌
- 2006丙戌
- 2066丙戌
A coordinate, not a complete reading
What this pillar establishes
丙戌 fixes one stem–branch identity. A chart supplies the placement and comparisons that make that identity usable.
The pair fixes
- Yang Fire through 丙
- The Dog branch and its time coordinates
- 屋上土 Earth on the roof as its Na Yin
- Position 23 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 →