Earth Goat
Jǐ Wèi, yin
- Stem
- 己 earth, yin
- Branch
- 未 goat
- 納音
- 天上火 Fire in the Sky
- Years
- 1919, 1979, 2039, 2099
Each listed year runs from its boundary to the next one, and it depends on the convention. Early dates in the calendar year can belong to the year before.
About this year
己未 is a doubled year of earth: yin 己 over 未, the Goat, with no cycle operating between them. It belongs to 1919 and 1979 among others.
Its 納音, Fire in the Sky, comes to it from 戊午, and here the name is entirely foreign to the pair. The gloss has energy passing beyond the palace of yang while light flares upward. A reader may simply take this as a poetic tag on a position, since neither 己 nor 未 contains fire.
Where this text comes from
The 納音 name follows the Wikisource text of 三命通會, volume 1, the only witness we found for the full set of names. The polarity of the stems and branches and the generating and overcoming cycles follow 五行大義 volume 2.
- 三命通會 卷一 (Wikisource 三命通會/卷一, SIMPLIFIED script as stored on Wikisource)
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- 五行大義 卷二 (Wikisource 五行大義/2, traditional script)
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The English here is our own plain wording, not a translation of a single source.