Sexagenary cycle · position 27 of 60
庚寅
Yang Metal Tiger 庚寅: 1950, 2010, 2070 Years & Na Yin
庚寅 Gēng–Yín is pillar 27 of 60: Yang Metal over the Tiger’s Wood branch, with Na Yin Pine and cypress wood 松柏木. It names 1950, 2010, 2070 and returns as a day pillar every 60 days.

What is fixed inside 庚寅
Pine and cypress wood
Pine and cypress wood presents an evergreen form that remains recognisable through the cold season. Read beside a day pillar, it suggests continuity of character, a durable outline and strength expressed by remaining present. The image is not rapid expansion; its interest lies in how a stable form meets changing surroundings without becoming entirely closed to them.
松柏木
- English association
- Pine and cypress wood
- Associated phase
- 木 Wood
- Shares this Na Yin
- 辛卯 Yin Metal 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 庚 Geng as the reference stem.
- 01
甲
Primary interior stem
偏财 Indirect Wealth - 02
丙
Middle interior stem
七杀 Seven Killings - 03
戊
Residual interior stem
偏印 Indirect Resource
Where 庚寅 returns
- Cycle position
- 27 / 60
- Ten-position decade · 旬
- 甲申
- Stem stage at this branch
- 绝 Extinction
Annual returns in the supported range
Every occurrence from 1901 through 2099 is shown.
- 1950庚寅
- 2010庚寅
- 2070庚寅
庚寅 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 寅
Metal controls Wood in the five-phase controlling cycle. The day branch holds Jia 甲 (Indirect Wealth), Bing 丙 (Seven Killings), Wu 戊 (Indirect Resource) relative to this Day Master.