Sexagenary cycle · position 03 of 60
丙寅
Yang Fire Tiger
This is one fixed meeting of a Heavenly Stem and an Earthly Branch. The stem supplies yang Fire; the branch supplies the Tiger and its twelve-position time coordinate.
Two coordinates, read together
What is fixed inside 丙寅
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 furnace
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.
炉中火
- English association
- Fire in the furnace
- Associated phase
- 火 Fire
- Shares this Na Yin
- 丁卯 Yin Fire Rabbit
The fixed branch register
The 寅 Yin coordinate
The same branch names an animal, a double hour, a solar-term month and a compass sector. Those coordinates remain attached to 寅in every pillar that contains it.
- 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
One address in the sixty-position sequence
Where 丙寅 returns
The pair is position 3. 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
- 03 / 60
- Ten-position decade · 旬
- 甲子
- Stem stage at this branch
- 帝旺 Prosperity
Annual returns in the supported range
Every occurrence from 1901 through 2099 is shown.
- 1926丙寅
- 1986丙寅
- 2046丙寅
A coordinate, not a complete reading
What this pillar establishes
丙寅 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 Tiger branch and its time coordinates
- 炉中火 Fire in the furnace as its Na Yin
- Position 3 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 →