Sexagenary cycle · position 16 of 60
己卯
Yin Earth Rabbit 己卯: 1939, 1999, 2059 Years & Na Yin
己卯 Jǐ–Mǎo is pillar 16 of 60: Yin Earth over the Rabbit’s Wood branch, with Na Yin City-wall earth 城头土. It names 1939, 1999, 2059 and returns as a day pillar every 60 days.
What is fixed inside 己卯
City-wall earth
City-wall earth is ground organised into a protective boundary around a shared place. Its day-pillar symbolism centres on holding a position, defining an inside and preserving a structure that others can recognise. The useful tension is between protection and access: a wall gives the settlement form, while its gates determine how it remains connected.
城头土
- English association
- City-wall earth
- Associated phase
- 土 Earth
- Shares this Na Yin
- 戊寅 Yang Earth Tiger
The 卯 Mao coordinate
- 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
Where 己卯 returns
- 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
己卯 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 卯
Wood controls Earth in the five-phase controlling cycle. The day branch holds Yi 乙 (Seven Killings) relative to this Day Master.