wu-shen day pillar

Few pairs show the quarrel over earth as sharply as 戊申. This site follows the line where earth moves with fire, which puts 戊 at Sickness, 病, on 申, the Monkey. Yet 三命通會 itself says in another chapter 申宫水土长生之地, that 申 is the place of Growth for water and earth, so the same pair could be read as a beginning.

Earth produces metal, so here the stem gives to its seat. This site's table makes 庚 the Eating God, 壬 Indirect Wealth and 戊 the Friend. 三命通會 assigns five days of this branch to 坤土, a direction word for earth, and never spells out which earth stem it means.

The picture in 三命通會 卷一 is agricultural: 秋间田地, fields in autumn, fond of 申, 酉 and fire. Earth of the Great Post Road, its 納音, is shared with 己酉 and speaks of highways where the entry speaks of farmland.