Sexagenary cycle · position 14 of 60
丁丑
Yin Fire Ox 丁丑: 1937, 1997, 2057 Years & Na Yin
丁丑 Dīng–Chǒu is pillar 14 of 60: Yin Fire over the Ox’s Earth branch, with Na Yin Water beneath the ravine 涧下水. It names 1937, 1997, 2057 and returns as a day pillar every 60 days.
What is fixed inside 丁丑
Water beneath the ravine
Water beneath the ravine follows a low, sheltered course shaped by the ground around it. In a day-pillar reading, it evokes attention to small openings and the ability to continue without occupying the widest channel. Its movement is specific rather than expansive, with the surrounding banks giving both a route forward and limits to that route.
涧下水
- English association
- Water beneath the ravine
- Associated phase
- 水 Water
- Shares this Na Yin
- 丙子 Yang Fire Rat
The 丑 Chou coordinate
- Animal
- Ox
- Branch polarity
- Yin
- Double hour
- 01:00–02:59
- Month opens at
- 小寒 Minor Cold
- Direction
- North-northeast
Inside this branch · 藏干
Hidden stems carried by 丑
The relationship name below compares each interior stem with 丁 Ding as the reference stem.
- 01
己
Primary interior stem
食神 Eating God - 02
癸
Middle interior stem
七杀 Seven Killings - 03
辛
Residual interior stem
偏财 Indirect Wealth
Where 丁丑 returns
- Cycle position
- 14 / 60
- Ten-position decade · 旬
- 甲戌
- Stem stage at this branch
- 墓 Tomb
Annual returns in the supported range
Every occurrence from 1901 through 2099 is shown.
- 1937丁丑
- 1997丁丑
- 2057丁丑
丁丑 as a day pillar
Ding’s classical description combines a yielding exterior with inner brightness. Its Day Master image lends itself to focused attention, thoughtful expression and care sustained through repeated small acts. The emphasis is on keeping something meaningful alight. Wood’s presence and the chart’s seasonal setting give this reading more substance than treating every Ding person as equally quiet or intense.
丁 above 丑
Fire generates Earth, so the visible stem feeds the branch phase. The day branch holds Ji 己 (Eating God), Gui 癸 (Seven Killings), Xin 辛 (Indirect Wealth) relative to this Day Master.