wu-xu day pillar

Earth on earth: 戊, yang earth, sits on 戌, the Dog branch, and this site's table lists 戊 again as the first hidden stem. The stem therefore finds its own Friend below it. The other two are 辛, named Hurting Officer because the earth produces this yin metal, and 丁, Direct Resource, yin fire that produces the earth.

Tomb, 墓, is the stage this site assigns, and it comes from letting earth follow fire through the cycle, as 三命通會 卷二 does. Elsewhere the same book lets earth travel with water, which would make 戌 a Crown and Belt position, and 五行大義 has a scheme of its own. In this vocabulary a tomb closes a round of the cycle, and 三命通會 gives 库, storehouse, as another name for it.

三命通會 卷一 files the pair under wood through its 納音, Wood of the Plain, and calls it 蒿艾之枯者, withered mugwort. That dry plant is said to like fire and the seasons of spring and summer.