Sexagenary cycle · position 32 of 60
乙未
Yin Wood Goat
This is one fixed meeting of a Heavenly Stem and an Earthly Branch. The stem supplies yin Wood; the branch supplies the Goat and its twelve-position time coordinate.
Two coordinates, read together
What is fixed inside 乙未
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
Metal in the sand
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.
沙中金
- English association
- Metal in the sand
- Associated phase
- 金 Metal
- Shares this Na Yin
- 甲午 Yang Wood Horse
The fixed branch register
The 未 Wei coordinate
The same branch names an animal, a double hour, a solar-term month and a compass sector. Those coordinates remain attached to 未in every pillar that contains it.
- 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 乙 Yi as the reference stem.
- 01
己
Primary interior stem
偏财 Indirect Wealth - 02
丁
Middle interior stem
食神 Eating God - 03
乙
Residual interior stem
比肩 Friend
One address in the sixty-position sequence
Where 乙未 returns
The pair is position 32. 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
- 32 / 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.
- 1955乙未
- 2015乙未
- 2075乙未
A coordinate, not a complete reading
What this pillar establishes
乙未 fixes one stem–branch identity. A chart supplies the placement and comparisons that make that identity usable.
The pair fixes
- Yin Wood through 乙
- The Goat branch and its time coordinates
- 沙中金 Metal in the sand as its Na Yin
- Position 32 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 →