Sexagenary cycle · position 59 of 60
壬戌
Yang Water Dog 壬戌: 1922, 1982, 2042 Years & Na Yin
壬戌 Rén–Xū is pillar 59 of 60: Yang Water over the Dog’s Earth branch, with Na Yin Great-sea water 大海水. It names 1922, 1982, 2042 and returns as a day pillar every 60 days.

What is fixed inside 壬戌
Great-sea water
Great-sea water gathers many streams into a body larger than any one of its sources. Read beside a day pillar, it suggests breadth, receptiveness and the capacity to hold several currents within one setting. Its contrast with a narrow channel is scale: the question becomes how individual movements remain intelligible inside a much more encompassing whole.
大海水
- English association
- Great-sea water
- Associated phase
- 水 Water
- Shares this Na Yin
- 癸亥 Yin Water 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 壬 Ren as the reference stem.
- 01
戊
Primary interior stem
七杀 Seven Killings - 02
辛
Middle interior stem
正印 Direct Resource - 03
丁
Residual interior stem
正财 Direct Wealth
Where 壬戌 returns
- Cycle position
- 59 / 60
- Ten-position decade · 旬
- 甲寅
- Stem stage at this branch
- 冠带 Cap and Gown
Annual returns in the supported range
Every occurrence from 1901 through 2099 is shown.
- 1922壬戌
- 1982壬戌
- 2042壬戌
壬戌 as a day pillar
Ren’s image is Water in circulation, travelling between places and gathering force as streams meet. As a Day Master, it offers a language for movement, connections and the ability to carry an idea forward. The important distinction is between purposeful flow and momentum that becomes difficult to redirect. Other chart relationships show where that movement gathers or finds expression.
壬 above 戌
Earth controls Water in the five-phase controlling cycle. The day branch holds Wu 戊 (Seven Killings), Xin 辛 (Direct Resource), Ding 丁 (Direct Wealth) relative to this Day Master.