xin-si day pillar

Metal over a fire branch, and fire controls metal, so element and stage tell a similar story for 辛 at 巳, the seat called Death. 三命通會 卷二 explains it with a forge: 巳为炉冶之火，将辛金炼成死器, the furnace fire of 巳 works 辛 metal into a finished, lifeless vessel. It goes on to say that the shape can no longer change. A cast object has stopped being reshaped, and that is the whole of the image.

The three tables agree on 丙, 庚 and 戊 for this branch and differ only in order. From 辛 these are Direct Officer, Rob Wealth and Direct Resource. For a yin stem meeting its yang partner, 淵海子平 uses 劫財 in its chapter while the 神峰通考 tables print 敗財, so the second name here depends on the book.

The 納音 白蠟金 belongs here too, and 三命通會 卷一 writes 金之幽者，杂沙石, metal still out of sight and mixed with sand and stone, then 喜火及秋, pleased by fire and autumn. The same book, then, has fire finishing this metal in one volume and pleasing it in another.