Sexagenary cycle · position 41 of 60
甲辰
Yang Wood Dragon 甲辰: 1904, 1964, 2024, 2084 Years & Na Yin
甲辰 Jiǎ–Chén is pillar 41 of 60: Yang Wood over the Dragon’s Earth branch, with Na Yin Covered-lamp fire 覆灯火. It names 1904, 1964, 2024, 2084 and returns as a day pillar every 60 days.
What is fixed inside 甲辰
Covered-lamp fire
Covered-lamp fire gathers light around a small, maintained flame. As a day-pillar image, it suggests focused understanding, the detail made visible nearby and a brightness that depends on being tended and sheltered. Its contrast with sunlight is one of scale: a lamp need not illuminate everything to make the immediate setting clearer and more usable.
覆灯火
- English association
- Covered-lamp fire
- Associated phase
- 火 Fire
- Shares this Na Yin
- 乙巳 Yin Wood Snake
The 辰 Chen coordinate
- Animal
- Dragon
- Branch polarity
- Yang
- Double hour
- 07:00–08:59
- Month opens at
- 清明 Clear and Bright
- Direction
- East-southeast
Inside this branch · 藏干
Hidden stems carried by 辰
The relationship name below compares each interior stem with 甲 Jia as the reference stem.
- 01
戊
Primary interior stem
偏财 Indirect Wealth - 02
乙
Middle interior stem
劫财 Rob Wealth - 03
癸
Residual interior stem
正印 Direct Resource
Where 甲辰 returns
- Cycle position
- 41 / 60
- Ten-position decade · 旬
- 甲辰
- Stem stage at this branch
- 衰 Decline
Annual returns in the supported range
Every occurrence from 1901 through 2099 is shown.
- 1904甲辰
- 1964甲辰
- 2024甲辰
- 2084甲辰
甲辰 as a day pillar
Jia’s traditional image is substantial Wood: roots, trunk and upward growth. As a Day Master image, it invites a reading of direction, persistence and the wish to stand by a principle. The useful tension is between staying rooted and becoming inflexible. Consider what supports that growth in the surrounding chart and where it finds an outlet.
甲 above 辰
Wood controls Earth in the five-phase controlling cycle. The day branch holds Wu 戊 (Indirect Wealth), Yi 乙 (Rob Wealth), Gui 癸 (Direct Resource) relative to this Day Master.