Sexagenary cycle · position 03 of 60
丙寅
Yang Fire Tiger 丙寅: 1926, 1986, 2046 Years & Na Yin
丙寅 Bǐng–Yín is pillar 3 of 60: Yang Fire over the Tiger’s Wood branch, with Na Yin Fire in the furnace 炉中火. It names 1926, 1986, 2046 and returns as a day pillar every 60 days.
What is fixed inside 丙寅
Fire in the furnace
A furnace gathers flame inside a structure, making heat concentrated rather than scattered. Read beside a day pillar, it suggests an approach shaped by sustained attention and a clear container for effort. The interesting contrast is between intensity and control: the same enclosure that gives the fire purpose also determines where its warmth can reach.
炉中火
- English association
- Fire in the furnace
- Associated phase
- 火 Fire
- Shares this Na Yin
- 丁卯 Yin Fire Rabbit
The 寅 Yin coordinate
- Animal
- Tiger
- Branch polarity
- Yang
- Double hour
- 03:00–04:59
- Month opens at
- 立春 Start of Spring
- Direction
- East-northeast
Inside this branch · 藏干
Hidden stems carried by 寅
The relationship name below compares each interior stem with 丙 Bing as the reference stem.
- 01
甲
Primary interior stem
偏印 Indirect Resource - 02
丙
Middle interior stem
比肩 Friend - 03
戊
Residual interior stem
食神 Eating God
Where 丙寅 returns
- Cycle position
- 03 / 60
- Ten-position decade · 旬
- 甲子
- Stem stage at this branch
- 长生 Growth
Annual returns in the supported range
Every occurrence from 1901 through 2099 is shown.
- 1926丙寅
- 1986丙寅
- 2046丙寅
丙寅 as a day pillar
Bing’s Fire is expansive and readily felt. Read through the Day Master, this image suggests vivid expression, direct engagement and an impulse to bring things into the open. Its intensity gives the interpretation movement and warmth. The surrounding chart helps distinguish a clear, sustained expression from heat that builds faster than it can find a useful outlet.
丙 above 寅
Wood generates Fire, so the branch phase feeds the visible stem. The day branch holds Jia 甲 (Indirect Resource), Bing 丙 (Friend), Wu 戊 (Eating God) relative to this Day Master.