丙辰 bing chen

丙 above, 辰 below

The stem generates the branch: Fire produces Earth. The upper half of the pillar feeds the lower half, so the visible stem is spending itself on what it sits above.

Where 丙辰 sits in the five elements

Metal does not appear anywhere in this pillar.

Earth leads at 40.7%, then fire at 37.0%.

What is buried inside 辰

辰 hides 3 stems. The primary is 戊 (Earth), what the stem produces; behind it sit 乙 (Wood, what produces the stem) and 癸 (Water, what restrains the stem).

丙 meeting 辰: the 冠帶 stage

The twelve stages (十二長生): yang stems run forward, yin stems backward.

丙 meets 辰 at the 冠帶 stage — cap and girdle.

辰 against 戌, with 酉

Opposite across the cycle (六沖), and paired with (六合):

Clashes with

戌 (Dog) — 甲戌

Combines with

酉 (Rooster) — 癸酉

Nayin: 沙中土

Nayin (納音) groups the cycle in pairs, each with an image. This one shares its image with 丁巳: 沙中土, “earth in the sand.”

How 丙辰 is conventionally read

丙 is the sun itself: visible, outward, impossible to keep indoors. 辰 is damp earth that holds water and receives what falls.

A fire-element day master on a earth footing — one of eight characters, which colours a chart and does not fix the person.

When the next 丙辰 days fall

The sixty-cycle repeats every sixty days, so this pillar returns roughly every two months. The next one is 8 December 2026 (Tuesday). Each is calculated at midday Beijing time; a birth in the hour before midnight can still belong to the previous 丙辰 day, because the day rolls at 23:00 true solar time.

Showing up to eight of the 6 occurrences in the next twelve months, from 2026-10-31.

丙 on six different footings

Six pillars carry this stem. It is the same day master every time, so everything that differs below is caused by the branch underneath it:

Here the footing is Earth — what the stem produces. The other five branches this stem sits on are 寅 (Wood), 子 (Water), 戌 (Earth), 申 (Metal), 午 (Fire).