Sexagenary cycle · position 21 of 60
甲申
Yang Wood Monkey 甲申: 1944, 2004, 2064 Years & Na Yin
甲申 Jiǎ–Shēn is pillar 21 of 60: Yang Wood over the Monkey’s Metal branch, with Na Yin Water in the spring 泉中水. It names 1944, 2004, 2064 and returns as a day pillar every 60 days.
What is fixed inside 甲申
Water in the spring
Spring water is a source approached repeatedly, with value in its continuing availability rather than in a dramatic flood. In a day-pillar reading, it becomes an image of replenishment, clarity and a contribution that can be returned to. Its scale is intimate: a definite source serves many small needs without needing to resemble an entire sea.
泉中水
- English association
- Water in the spring
- Associated phase
- 水 Water
- Shares this Na Yin
- 乙酉 Yin Wood Rooster
The 申 Shen coordinate
- Animal
- Monkey
- Branch polarity
- Yang
- Double hour
- 15:00–16:59
- Month opens at
- 立秋 Start of Autumn
- Direction
- West-southwest
Inside this branch · 藏干
Hidden stems carried by 申
The relationship name below compares each interior stem with 甲 Jia as the reference stem.
- 01
庚
Primary interior stem
七杀 Seven Killings - 02
壬
Middle interior stem
偏印 Indirect Resource - 03
戊
Residual interior stem
偏财 Indirect Wealth
Where 甲申 returns
- Cycle position
- 21 / 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.
- 1944甲申
- 2004甲申
- 2064甲申
甲申 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 申
Metal controls Wood in the five-phase controlling cycle. The day branch holds Geng 庚 (Seven Killings), Ren 壬 (Indirect Resource), Wu 戊 (Indirect Wealth) relative to this Day Master.