Cast & Chart

xin-mao day pillar

A chart describes tendencies in a traditional system. It cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.

Hidden stems
乙
納音
松柏木 Pine and Cypress Wood
Life stage
絕 Extinction

About this pillar

辛 controls 卯 at the level of elements, and because both stems involved are yin, the lone 乙 inside this branch reads as Indirect Wealth. A chart with 甲 in that seat would read Direct Wealth, and 三命通會 does insert 甲 for the first seven days of the 卯 month. The 神峰通考 verse on hidden stems says nothing about this branch.

Extinction here comes from the reversed count that runs 辛 back from 子. It shares the name with 庚寅 and sits on the adjoining branch. 三命通會 says the twelve seats go round without end, so the word marks a turn in that round and reports nothing about a person.

The entry in 卷一 finishes the pine: 松柏之根, the root of pine and cypress, with 喜水土及宜春, pleased by water and earth and suited to spring. Its 破禄 tag appears to fit the pattern of an opposite seat, with 神峰通考 giving 辛禄居酉, 辛 at home in 酉, and 卯 across from that branch, a reading the chapter itself does not give.

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.

The English here is our own plain wording, not a translation of a single source.