Cast & Chart

bing-chen day pillar

A chart describes tendencies in a traditional system. It cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.

Hidden stems
戊 乙 癸
納音
沙中土 Earth in the Sand
Life stage
冠帶 Crown and Belt

About this pillar

堤岸, an embankment, is what 三命通會 卷一 sees in this pair, and the entry says it likes metal and wood. It belongs under the 納音 Earth in the Sand, and earth is also the element of the Dragon branch 辰.

Fire creates earth, so 丙 gives to its seat. In this site's table 戊 is the Eating God, 乙 Direct Resource and 癸 Direct Officer. 三命通會 has 壬 in the slot of 癸, and yang water facing yang fire would be named Seven Killings, so a single table choice alters the label here.

Counting from 寅, where 丙 has its Growth, the third place is Crown and Belt, 冠帶. Its name refers to the formal clothing of someone newly grown.

Where this text comes from

The 納音 name and the note on this pair follow 三命通會 volume 1. The life stage follows 三命通會 volume 2. The hidden stems follow the arrangement in 淵海子平 and 神峰通考, and other tables differ. All texts are the Wikisource versions.

The English here is our own plain wording, not a translation of a single source.