yi-wei day pillar

Under the Goat branch 未 lies earth, and the yin wood of 乙 stands over it in the controlling position, since wood masters soil in the cycle of the elements. This site's table finds three stems in 未: 己, which is Indirect Wealth to 乙; 丁, yin fire the wood produces, called the Eating God; and 乙 itself, the Friend. That last one gives the stem a copy of itself in its own seat, though 三命通會 prints 甲 where this list has 乙.

The image in 三命通會 卷一 is 炉炭余金, metal left over among the furnace coals. This pair shares the 納音 Gold in the Sand with 甲午, and the book separates the two sharply, one thoroughly refined and the other a residue. It says the leftover metal likes great fire and earth.

This pillar is given Nurture, 養. 乙 counts backward through the branches in this system and has its Growth at 午, so 未 is the step immediately before that birth. 三命通會 has another word for the same step, 成形, to take form.