Sexagenary cycle · position 47 of 60
庚戌
Yang Metal Dog 庚戌: 1910, 1970, 2030, 2090 Years & Na Yin
庚戌 Gēng–Xū is pillar 47 of 60: Yang Metal over the Dog’s Earth branch, with Na Yin Hairpin and bracelet metal 钗钏金. It names 1910, 1970, 2030, 2090 and returns as a day pillar every 60 days.

What is fixed inside 庚戌
Hairpin and bracelet metal
Hairpin and bracelet metal has already been worked into an ornament with a chosen shape and a place on the body. Its day-pillar symbolism concerns refinement, considered expression and the meeting of material with form. Unlike the sword edge, its definition is not made for cutting; detail becomes a way of making a particular style visible.
钗钏金
- English association
- Hairpin and bracelet metal
- Associated phase
- 金 Metal
- Shares this Na Yin
- 辛亥 Yin Metal Pig
The 戌 Xu coordinate
- 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 庚 Geng as the reference stem.
- 01
戊
Primary interior stem
偏印 Indirect Resource - 02
辛
Middle interior stem
劫财 Rob Wealth - 03
丁
Residual interior stem
正官 Direct Officer
Where 庚戌 returns
- Cycle position
- 47 / 60
- Ten-position decade · 旬
- 甲辰
- Stem stage at this branch
- 衰 Decline
Annual returns in the supported range
Every occurrence from 1901 through 2099 is shown.
- 1910庚戌
- 1970庚戌
- 2030庚戌
- 2090庚戌
庚戌 as a day pillar
Geng’s traditional Metal is strong and responsive to shaping. The Day Master image can describe resolve, clear distinctions and a preference for meeting a problem directly. Refinement matters as much as force: the interpretive question is how determination becomes purposeful action. Fire and Water give the classical discussion different ways of describing that shaping and expression.
庚 above 戌
Earth generates Metal, so the branch phase feeds the visible stem. The day branch holds Wu 戊 (Indirect Resource), Xin 辛 (Rob Wealth), Ding 丁 (Direct Officer) relative to this Day Master.