Sexagenary cycle · position 56 of 60
己未
Yin Earth Goat 己未: 1919, 1979, 2039, 2099 Years & Na Yin
己未 Jǐ–Wèi is pillar 56 of 60: Yin Earth over the Goat’s Earth branch, with Na Yin Fire in the sky 天上火. It names 1919, 1979, 2039, 2099 and returns as a day pillar every 60 days.

What is fixed inside 己未
Fire in the sky
Fire in the sky takes the scale of broad illumination, making a landscape visible rather than lighting only one corner. Beside a day pillar, it suggests outward expression and a clear field of attention. The image differs from a sheltered lamp through reach, while the presence of both brightness and shadow keeps that reach from meaning identical visibility everywhere.
天上火
- English association
- Fire in the sky
- Associated phase
- 火 Fire
- Shares this Na Yin
- 戊午 Yang Earth Horse
The 未 Wei coordinate
- Animal
- Goat
- Branch polarity
- Yin
- Double hour
- 13:00–14:59
- Month opens at
- 小暑 Minor Heat
- Direction
- South-southwest
Inside this branch · 藏干
Hidden stems carried by 未
The relationship name below compares each interior stem with 己 Ji as the reference stem.
- 01
己
Primary interior stem
比肩 Friend - 02
丁
Middle interior stem
偏印 Indirect Resource - 03
乙
Residual interior stem
七杀 Seven Killings
Where 己未 returns
- Cycle position
- 56 / 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.
- 1919己未
- 1979己未
- 2039己未
- 2099己未
己未 as a day pillar
Ji is pictured as the soil of a field or garden, receptive to cultivation and able to hold what growing things need. As a Day Master image, it suggests patient involvement, practical care and development through steady attention. Its reading turns on conditions: warmth, moisture and room for growth make the surrounding chart part of the metaphor.
己 above 未
The stem and branch both carry Earth, so this pair repeats one phase rather than linking two phases. The day branch holds Ji 己 (Friend), Ding 丁 (Indirect Resource), Yi 乙 (Seven Killings) relative to this Day Master.