Sexagenary cycle · position 38 of 60
辛丑
Yin Metal Ox 辛丑: 1901, 1961, 2021, 2081 Years & Na Yin
辛丑 Xīn–Chǒu is pillar 38 of 60: Yin Metal over the Ox’s Earth branch, with Na Yin Earth on the wall 壁上土. It names 1901, 1961, 2021, 2081 and returns as a day pillar every 60 days.
What is fixed inside 辛丑
Earth on the wall
Earth on the wall becomes the surface and enclosure of a place people inhabit. In a day-pillar reading, it suggests the shaping of an inner setting: boundaries, finish and the distinction between what is shared and what stays within. Its character is domestic rather than monumental, unlike a city wall built to define a whole settlement.
壁上土
- English association
- Earth on the wall
- Associated phase
- 土 Earth
- Shares this Na Yin
- 庚子 Yang Metal 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 辛 Xin as the reference stem.
- 01
己
Primary interior stem
偏印 Indirect Resource - 02
癸
Middle interior stem
食神 Eating God - 03
辛
Residual interior stem
比肩 Friend
Where 辛丑 returns
- Cycle position
- 38 / 60
- Ten-position decade · 旬
- 甲午
- Stem stage at this branch
- 养 Nurture
Annual returns in the supported range
Every occurrence from 1901 through 2099 is shown.
- 1901辛丑
- 1961辛丑
- 2021辛丑
- 2081辛丑
辛丑 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 丑
Earth generates Metal, so the branch phase feeds the visible stem. The day branch holds Ji 己 (Indirect Resource), Gui 癸 (Eating God), Xin 辛 (Friend) relative to this Day Master.