Sexagenary cycle · position 04 of 60
丁卯
Yin Fire Rabbit 丁卯: 1927, 1987, 2047 Years & Na Yin
丁卯 Dīng–Mǎo is pillar 4 of 60: Yin Fire over the Rabbit’s Wood branch, with Na Yin Fire in the furnace 炉中火. It names 1927, 1987, 2047 and returns as a day pillar every 60 days.
What is fixed inside 丁卯
Fire in the furnace
A furnace gathers flame inside a structure, making heat concentrated rather than scattered. Read beside a day pillar, it suggests an approach shaped by sustained attention and a clear container for effort. The interesting contrast is between intensity and control: the same enclosure that gives the fire purpose also determines where its warmth can reach.
炉中火
- English association
- Fire in the furnace
- Associated phase
- 火 Fire
- Shares this Na Yin
- 丙寅 Yang Fire 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 丁 Ding as the reference stem.
- 01
乙
Primary interior stem
偏印 Indirect Resource
Where 丁卯 returns
- Cycle position
- 04 / 60
- Ten-position decade · 旬
- 甲子
- Stem stage at this branch
- 病 Sickness
Annual returns in the supported range
Every occurrence from 1901 through 2099 is shown.
- 1927丁卯
- 1987丁卯
- 2047丁卯
丁卯 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 卯
Wood generates Fire, so the branch phase feeds the visible stem. The day branch holds Yi 乙 (Indirect Resource) relative to this Day Master.