ren-yin day pillar
A chart describes tendencies in a traditional system. It cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.
- Hidden stems
- 甲 丙 戊
- 納音
- 金箔金 Gold Leaf Metal
- Life stage
- 病 Sickness
About this pillar
壬寅 is water pouring into wood, yang water above and 寅, the Tiger, below. All three hidden stems in this site's table are yang like the day master, which gives a tidy set of names: 甲 as the Eating God, 丙 as Indirect Wealth and 戊 as Seven Killings. The last merely labels yang earth pressing on yang water. The works that assign day counts to 寅 broadly agree on these three, though 三命通會 writes 艮土 for the earth stem, and disagree on how long each one rules.
三命通會 卷一 describes 金之华饰者, metal made into ornament. Its 納音 is Gold Leaf Metal, a close match between name and image, and it is said to like wood and a small amount of fire.
Counting from 申, where 壬 begins, 寅 is the seventh place, the stage called Sickness. It sits one step short of the stage called Death on a wheel of twelve, and the names describe only that rotation.
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.
- 三命通會 卷一
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- 三命通會 卷二
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- 淵海子平
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- 神峰通考
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