Sexagenary cycle · position 37 of 60
庚子
Yang Metal Rat 庚子: 1960, 2020, 2080 Years & Na Yin
庚子 Gēng–Zǐ is pillar 37 of 60: Yang Metal over the Rat’s Water branch, with Na Yin Earth on the wall 壁上土. It names 1960, 2020, 2080 and returns as a day pillar every 60 days.
What is fixed inside 庚子
Earth on the wall
Earth on the wall becomes the surface and enclosure of a place people inhabit. In a day-pillar reading, it suggests the shaping of an inner setting: boundaries, finish and the distinction between what is shared and what stays within. Its character is domestic rather than monumental, unlike a city wall built to define a whole settlement.
壁上土
- English association
- Earth on the wall
- Associated phase
- 土 Earth
- Shares this Na Yin
- 辛丑 Yin Metal Ox
The 子 Zi coordinate
- Animal
- Rat
- Branch polarity
- Yang
- Double hour
- 23:00–00:59
- Month opens at
- 大雪 Major Snow
- Direction
- North
Inside this branch · 藏干
Hidden stems carried by 子
The relationship name below compares each interior stem with 庚 Geng as the reference stem.
- 01
癸
Primary interior stem
伤官 Hurting Officer
Where 庚子 returns
- Cycle position
- 37 / 60
- Ten-position decade · 旬
- 甲午
- Stem stage at this branch
- 死 Death
Annual returns in the supported range
Every occurrence from 1901 through 2099 is shown.
- 1960庚子
- 2020庚子
- 2080庚子
庚子 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 子
Metal generates Water, so the visible stem feeds the branch phase. The day branch holds Gui 癸 (Hurting Officer) relative to this Day Master.