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.

Gēng–Yín

Branch
寅 Yin
Na Yin
松柏木
Tiger in a traditional Chinese landscape
Heavenly Stem · 7/10庚GengYang Metal
Earthly Branch · 3/12寅YinTiger · Yang Wood
Both sequences advance one position at a time. This exact pair returns after sixty steps.

What is fixed inside 庚寅

01 · Visible stem

庚

Geng

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

02 · Phase relation

Stem restrains branch

Metal controls Wood in the five-phase controlling cycle.

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.

  1. 01

    甲

    Primary interior stem

    偏财 Indirect Wealth
  2. 02

    丙

    Middle interior stem

    七杀 Seven Killings
  3. 03

    戊

    Residual interior stem

    偏印 Indirect Resource
Open all twelve hidden-stem interiors

Where 庚寅 returns

Cycle position
27 / 60
Ten-position decade · 旬
甲申
Void branches · 空亡
午 Horse · 未 Goat
Stem stage at this branch
绝 Extinction

Annual returns in the supported range

Every occurrence from 1901 through 2099 is shown.

  1. 1950庚寅
  2. 2010庚寅
  3. 2070庚寅
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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.