丙戌 bing xu

丙 above, 戌 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 丙戌 sits in the five elements

Wood and Water do not appear anywhere in this pillar.

Fire leads at 48.1%, then earth at 40.7%.

What is buried inside 戌

戌 hides 3 stems. The primary is 戊 (Earth), what the stem produces; behind it sit 辛 (Metal, what the stem restrains) and 丁 (Fire, the same element as the stem).

丙 meeting 戌: the 墓 stage

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

丙 meets 戌 at the 墓 stage — tomb.

戌 against 辰, with 卯

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

Clashes with

辰 (Dragon) — 戊辰

Combines with

卯 (Rabbit) — 丁卯

Nayin: 屋上土

Nayin (納音) groups the cycle in pairs, each with an image. This one shares its image with 丁亥: 屋上土, “earth on the roof.”

How 丙戌 is conventionally read

丙 is the sun itself: visible, outward, impossible to keep indoors. 戌 is dry earth that closes the season and holds it.

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 丙戌 days fall

The sixty-cycle repeats every sixty days, so this pillar returns roughly every two months. The next one is 8 November 2026 (Sunday). Each is calculated at midday Beijing time; a birth in the hour before midnight can still belong to the previous 丙戌 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), 申 (Metal), 午 (Fire), 辰 (Earth).