Sexagenary cycle · position 08 of 60
辛未
Yin Metal Goat 辛未: 1931, 1991, 2051 Years & Na Yin
辛未 Xīn–Wèi is pillar 8 of 60: Yin Metal over the Goat’s Earth branch, with Na Yin Roadside earth 路旁土. It names 1931, 1991, 2051 and returns as a day pillar every 60 days.
What is fixed inside 辛未
Roadside earth
Roadside earth is ground made useful by what grows beside it and what passes across it. Applied to a day pillar, this image favours the language of support, accessibility and ordinary continuity. Its distinction from a wall is openness: it participates in movement without needing to direct every traveller or make the path its own.
路旁土
- English association
- Roadside earth
- Associated phase
- 土 Earth
- Shares this Na Yin
- 庚午 Yang Metal Horse
The 未 Wei coordinate
- Animal
- Goat
- Branch polarity
- Yin
- Double hour
- 13:00–14:59
- Month opens at
- 小暑 Minor Heat
- Direction
- South-southwest
Inside this branch · 藏干
Hidden stems carried by 未
The relationship name below compares each interior stem with 辛 Xin as the reference stem.
- 01
己
Primary interior stem
偏印 Indirect Resource - 02
丁
Middle interior stem
七杀 Seven Killings - 03
乙
Residual interior stem
偏财 Indirect Wealth
Where 辛未 returns
- Cycle position
- 08 / 60
- Ten-position decade · 旬
- 甲子
- Stem stage at this branch
- 衰 Decline
Annual returns in the supported range
Every occurrence from 1901 through 2099 is shown.
- 1931辛未
- 1991辛未
- 2051辛未
辛未 as a day pillar
Xin draws attention to fineness, clarity and the conditions that allow a material’s qualities to show. A Day Master reading can explore discernment, sensitivity to detail and care over how something is expressed. The image also contains a tension between refinement and excessive scrutiny. Surrounding Earth, Water and Fire shape how the classical texts develop this theme.
辛 above 未
Earth generates Metal, so the branch phase feeds the visible stem. The day branch holds Ji 己 (Indirect Resource), Ding 丁 (Seven Killings), Yi 乙 (Indirect Wealth) relative to this Day Master.