Sexagenary cycle · position 16 of 60
己卯
Yin Earth Rabbit
This is one fixed meeting of a Heavenly Stem and an Earthly Branch. The stem supplies yin Earth; the branch supplies the Rabbit and its twelve-position time coordinate.
Two coordinates, read together
What is fixed inside 己卯
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
City-wall earth
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.
城头土
- English association
- City-wall earth
- Associated phase
- 土 Earth
- Shares this Na Yin
- 戊寅 Yang Earth Tiger
The fixed branch register
The 卯 Mao coordinate
The same branch names an animal, a double hour, a solar-term month and a compass sector. Those coordinates remain attached to 卯in every pillar that contains it.
- Animal
- Rabbit
- Branch polarity
- Yin
- Double hour
- 05:00–06:59
- Month opens at
- 惊蛰 Awakening of Insects
- Direction
- East
Inside this branch · 藏干
Hidden stems carried by 卯
The relationship name below compares each interior stem with 己 Ji as the reference stem.
- 01
乙
Primary interior stem
七杀 Seven Killings
One address in the sixty-position sequence
Where 己卯 returns
The pair is position 16. 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
- 16 / 60
- Ten-position decade · 旬
- 甲戌
- Stem stage at this branch
- 病 Sickness
Annual returns in the supported range
Every occurrence from 1901 through 2099 is shown.
- 1939己卯
- 1999己卯
- 2059己卯
A coordinate, not a complete reading
What this pillar establishes
己卯 fixes one stem–branch identity. A chart supplies the placement and comparisons that make that identity usable.
The pair fixes
- Yin Earth through 己
- The Rabbit branch and its time coordinates
- 城头土 City-wall earth as its Na Yin
- Position 16 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 →