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.

Gēng–Xū

Branch
戌 Xu
Na Yin
钗钏金
Dog in a traditional Chinese landscape
Heavenly Stem · 7/10庚GengYang Metal
Earthly Branch · 11/12戌XuDog · Yang Earth
Both sequences advance one position at a time. This exact pair returns after sixty steps.

What is fixed inside 庚戌

01 · Visible stem

庚

Geng

Yang Metal, stem 7 in the ten-stem sequence.

02 · Phase relation

Branch feeds stem

Earth generates Metal, so the branch phase feeds the visible stem.

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.

  1. 01

    戊

    Primary interior stem

    偏印 Indirect Resource
  2. 02

    辛

    Middle interior stem

    劫财 Rob Wealth
  3. 03

    丁

    Residual interior stem

    正官 Direct Officer
Open all twelve hidden-stem interiors

Where 庚戌 returns

Cycle position
47 / 60
Ten-position decade · 旬
甲辰
Void branches · 空亡
寅 Tiger · 卯 Rabbit
Stem stage at this branch
衰 Decline

Annual returns in the supported range

Every occurrence from 1901 through 2099 is shown.

  1. 1910庚戌
  2. 1970庚戌
  3. 2030庚戌
  4. 2090庚戌
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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.