Sexagenary cycle · position 21 of 60
甲申
Yang Wood Monkey
This is one fixed meeting of a Heavenly Stem and an Earthly Branch. The stem supplies yang Wood; the branch supplies the Monkey and its twelve-position time coordinate.
Two coordinates, read together
What is fixed inside 甲申
A pillar keeps the same stem and branch wherever it is used. What changes is its placement—as a year, month, day or hour—and the other pillars it is compared with.
A separate traditional association · 纳音
Water in the spring
Na Yin assigns one named image and phase to every pair of consecutive cycle pillars. It sits beside the visible stem and branch coordinates; it does not replace either one.
泉中水
- English association
- Water in the spring
- Associated phase
- 水 Water
- Shares this Na Yin
- 乙酉 Yin Wood Rooster
The fixed branch register
The 申 Shen coordinate
The same branch names an animal, a double hour, a solar-term month and a compass sector. Those coordinates remain attached to 申in every pillar that contains it.
- 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
One address in the sixty-position sequence
Where 甲申 returns
The pair is position 21. Its annual appearances repeat every sixty years; the same pillar can also occur at the month, day or hour scale under those cycles' own rules.
- Cycle position
- 21 / 60
- Ten-position decade · 旬
- 甲申
- Stem stage at this branch
- 死 Death
Annual returns in the supported range
Every occurrence from 1901 through 2099 is shown.
- 1944甲申
- 2004甲申
- 2064甲申
A coordinate, not a complete reading
What this pillar establishes
甲申 fixes one stem–branch identity. A chart supplies the placement and comparisons that make that identity usable.
The pair fixes
- Yang Wood through 甲
- The Monkey branch and its time coordinates
- 泉中水 Water in the spring as its Na Yin
- Position 21 in the repeating sequence
The chart still decides
Whether the pair is the year, month, day or hour pillar; which stem is the Day Master; and how the surrounding stems and branches relate to it. The pair alone does not rank a personality, promise an outcome or stand in for the other three pillars.
See how four pillars form a chart →