Day Pillar #11 · 甲戌
| Position in the cycle | #11 of 60 |
|---|---|
| Heavenly stem 天干 | 甲 — 木 Wood |
| Earthly branch 地支 | 戌 — 土 Earth |
| Nayin 纳音 | 山头火 — Mountain-Top Fire (Fire) |
| Hidden stems 藏干 | 戊、辛、丁 — 戊 (Earth), 辛 (Metal), 丁 (Fire) |
| Twelve-stage placement 十二长生 | 养 — Nurture (of the stem in its own branch) |
Jia is the tall tree — the classics say it reaches for the sky and needs fire to become timber. Built to grow up and to bear weight.
Under it here is 戌: dry earth, and a storehouse of fire. Hot, parched ground. So the roots dig down into drought.
Jia-day people tend to be the load-bearers — responsible, stubborn about what is right, the one holding the roof up. The catch is the same as the tree's: too proud to bow, too proud to rest, prone to grinding themselves hollow. And the classical read has a twist — this tree's real shortage is not fire, it is water. Finding ground and people that actually nourish you beats pushing harder.
The nayin pairs 甲戌 with 乙亥 as 山头火, mountain-top fire, and the derivation is entirely about placement:
甲戌乙亥谓之山头火者，山乃藏形，头乃投光，内明外暗，隐而不显，飞光投乾，归于休息之中。
Jiaxu and Yihai are called mountain-top fire because the mountain conceals the form while the peak throws the light: bright within and dark without, hidden and not shown, its light flung toward the northwest and returning into rest.
Not a prediction, not a fortune. Just structure.
Sources: 《三命通会》 (San Ming Tong Hui, Ming, 万民英) and 《滴天髓》 (Di Tian Sui) — both quoted from local plain-text editions and verified character by character. Translations are ours. Corrections are welcome.
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