jia-shen day pillar

申 is metal, metal controls wood, and 甲 stands at Extinction in this branch. The alarming English hides a gentler image. 三命通會 calls this seat 受气 as well as 绝, and its comparison is a womb still empty before anything has begun, so the next stage is Conception.

A controlling branch can still carry a feeding stem. Among the stems inside 申 are 庚 as Seven Killings, 戊 as Indirect Wealth and 壬 as Indirect Resource, and that last is water, which feeds wood. The tables mostly agree here on the set of three.

井泉水, Water of the Well Spring, gets one phrase in 三命通會 卷一: 甘井, a sweet well, with 喜春及夏, pleased by spring and summer. The entry's undefined label 破禄马 contains the word 禄, a stem's seat of salary. 神峰通考 says 甲禄到寅, and 申 stands opposite 寅, which may be the connection, though the chapter does not spell it out.