Sexagenary cycle · position 10 of 60
癸酉
Yin Water Rooster
This is one fixed meeting of a Heavenly Stem and an Earthly Branch. The stem supplies yin Water; the branch supplies the Rooster and its twelve-position time coordinate.
Two coordinates, read together
What is fixed inside 癸酉
A pillar keeps the same stem and branch wherever it is used. What changes is its placement—as a year, month, day or hour—and the other pillars it is compared with.
A separate traditional association · 纳音
Sword-edge metal
Na Yin assigns one named image and phase to every pair of consecutive cycle pillars. It sits beside the visible stem and branch coordinates; it does not replace either one.
剑锋金
- English association
- Sword-edge metal
- Associated phase
- 金 Metal
- Shares this Na Yin
- 壬申 Yang Water Monkey
The fixed branch register
The 酉 You coordinate
The same branch names an animal, a double hour, a solar-term month and a compass sector. Those coordinates remain attached to 酉in every pillar that contains it.
- 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 癸 Gui as the reference stem.
- 01
辛
Primary interior stem
偏印 Indirect Resource
One address in the sixty-position sequence
Where 癸酉 returns
The pair is position 10. Its annual appearances repeat every sixty years; the same pillar can also occur at the month, day or hour scale under those cycles' own rules.
- Cycle position
- 10 / 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.
- 1933癸酉
- 1993癸酉
- 2053癸酉
A coordinate, not a complete reading
What this pillar establishes
癸酉 fixes one stem–branch identity. A chart supplies the placement and comparisons that make that identity usable.
The pair fixes
- Yin Water through 癸
- The Rooster branch and its time coordinates
- 剑锋金 Sword-edge metal as its Na Yin
- Position 10 in the repeating sequence
The chart still decides
Whether the pair is the year, month, day or hour pillar; which stem is the Day Master; and how the surrounding stems and branches relate to it. The pair alone does not rank a personality, promise an outcome or stand in for the other three pillars.
See how four pillars form a chart →