yi-hai day pillar

The name sounds worst here and the objection from the classics is loudest. By the backward count for yin stems, 乙 reaches the stage called Death at 亥, even though 亥 is water and water feeds wood. 滴天髓 balks at exactly this case: 乙木見亥，亥中有壬水，乃其嫡母，何為死哉, 乙 wood meets 亥, inside 亥 is 壬 water, its own true mother, so how can this be death?

Death in this list is a seat in a rotating count. 三命通會 卷二 makes the same caution in its own words: 见休囚死绝未必便作凶言, to see Death or Extinction need not be read as bad. Inside 亥 the handbooks place 壬, a Direct Resource to 乙, and 甲, a Rob Wealth or same-element stem of opposite polarity. 三命通會 also grants 戊 a few days in this branch, and 淵海子平 leaves it out.

三命通會 卷一 files this half of 山頭火 as 火之热气, the hot air given off by fire, and says 喜土及夏, pleased by earth and summer. Set beside 甲戌, where fire has settled for the night, this is the warmth that lingers.