Sexagenary cycle · position 42 of 60
乙巳
Yin Wood Snake 乙巳: 1905, 1965, 2025, 2085 Years & Na Yin
乙巳 Yǐ–Sì is pillar 42 of 60: Yin Wood over the Snake’s Fire branch, with Na Yin Covered-lamp fire 覆灯火. It names 1905, 1965, 2025, 2085 and returns as a day pillar every 60 days.
What is fixed inside 乙巳
Covered-lamp fire
Covered-lamp fire gathers light around a small, maintained flame. As a day-pillar image, it suggests focused understanding, the detail made visible nearby and a brightness that depends on being tended and sheltered. Its contrast with sunlight is one of scale: a lamp need not illuminate everything to make the immediate setting clearer and more usable.
覆灯火
- English association
- Covered-lamp fire
- Associated phase
- 火 Fire
- Shares this Na Yin
- 甲辰 Yang Wood Dragon
The 巳 Si coordinate
- Animal
- Snake
- Branch polarity
- Yin
- Double hour
- 09:00–10:59
- Month opens at
- 立夏 Start of Summer
- Direction
- South-southeast
Inside this branch · 藏干
Hidden stems carried by 巳
The relationship name below compares each interior stem with 乙 Yi as the reference stem.
- 01
丙
Primary interior stem
伤官 Hurting Officer - 02
庚
Middle interior stem
正官 Direct Officer - 03
戊
Residual interior stem
正财 Direct Wealth
Where 乙巳 returns
- Cycle position
- 42 / 60
- Ten-position decade · 旬
- 甲辰
- Stem stage at this branch
- 沐浴 Bath
Annual returns in the supported range
Every occurrence from 1901 through 2099 is shown.
- 1905乙巳
- 1965乙巳
- 2025乙巳
- 2085乙巳
乙巳 as a day pillar
Yi brings the image of supple growth that reaches its destination through small adjustments. A Day Master reading can explore adaptability, responsiveness and the ability to work with surrounding conditions. The vine’s connection to a larger tree also gives this image a relational quality: support can extend its reach, while excessive accommodation can obscure its own direction.
乙 above 巳
Wood generates Fire, so the visible stem feeds the branch phase. The day branch holds Bing 丙 (Hurting Officer), Geng 庚 (Direct Officer), Wu 戊 (Direct Wealth) relative to this Day Master.