Water Rabbit
Guǐ Mǎo, yin
- Stem
- 癸 water, yin
- Branch
- 卯 rabbit
- 納音
- 金箔金 Gold Leaf Metal
- Years
- 1903, 1963, 2023, 2083
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
癸卯 is yin water over the wood of 卯, the Rabbit, and water feeds wood. Its years include 1963 and 2023.
Silk-thin gold is the idea behind this 納音, which it shares with 壬寅. The handbook reads that weakness as a stage in metal's cycle, reached at a low ebb. Gold Leaf Metal stays a tag on the slot, since the year itself is made of water and wood.
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 witness prints this name as 金泊金. 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.