xin-chou day pillar

Soil is where metal comes from in the generating order, so 丑, the Ox branch, supports the yin metal of 辛 from below. Its first hidden stem 己 is Indirect Resource to 辛, 癸 is the Eating God, and 辛 itself is the Friend. Hidden-stem tables split on this branch in a way that touches the pair directly. 三命通會 has 庚 where 淵海子平 and 神峰通考 have 辛, so in that one table the Friend gives way to a yang metal in the Rob Wealth position.

In 三命通會 卷一 the entry for this pair turns on one word, 坟墓, a burial mound, and adds a liking for wood, fire and spring. It stands beside 庚子 under the 納音 Earth on the Wall, so across two neighboring pairs the book goes from a house to a grave.

丑 is Nurture, 養, for 辛, the last place in a backward count from its Growth at 子. The quiet name belongs to the last step before birth in the life metaphor.