Sexagenary cycle · position 46 of 60
己酉
Yin Earth Rooster 己酉: 1909, 1969, 2029, 2089 Years & Na Yin
己酉 Jǐ–Yǒu is pillar 46 of 60: Yin Earth over the Rooster’s Metal branch, with Na Yin Great post-road earth 大驿土. It names 1909, 1969, 2029, 2089 and returns as a day pillar every 60 days.
What is fixed inside 己酉
Great post-road earth
Great post-road earth describes ground through which routes and travellers connect. Beside a day pillar, it suggests a meeting place for different directions, giving passage a shared setting without requiring every journey to end there. Its openness distinguishes it from defensive earth: the central image is a network made possible by a dependable place of crossing.
大驿土
- English association
- Great post-road earth
- Associated phase
- 土 Earth
- Shares this Na Yin
- 戊申 Yang Earth Monkey
The 酉 You coordinate
- Animal
- Rooster
- Branch polarity
- Yin
- Double hour
- 17:00–18:59
- Month opens at
- 白露 White Dew
- Direction
- West
Inside this branch · 藏干
Hidden stems carried by 酉
The relationship name below compares each interior stem with 己 Ji as the reference stem.
- 01
辛
Primary interior stem
食神 Eating God
Where 己酉 returns
- Cycle position
- 46 / 60
- Ten-position decade · 旬
- 甲辰
- Stem stage at this branch
- 长生 Growth
Annual returns in the supported range
Every occurrence from 1901 through 2099 is shown.
- 1909己酉
- 1969己酉
- 2029己酉
- 2089己酉
己酉 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 酉
Earth generates Metal, so the visible stem feeds the branch phase. The day branch holds Xin 辛 (Eating God) relative to this Day Master.