丙寅 bing yin

丙 above, 寅 below

The branch generates the stem: Wood produces Fire. This is the more comfortable arrangement of the two — the ground under the stem is feeding it rather than draining it.

Where 丙寅 sits in the five elements

Metal and Water do not appear anywhere in this pillar.

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

What is buried inside 寅

寅 hides 3 stems. The primary is 甲 (Wood), what produces the stem; behind it sit 丙 (Fire, the same element as the stem) and 戊 (Earth, what the stem produces).

丙 meeting 寅: the 長生 stage

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

丙 meets 寅 at the 長生 stage — birth.

寅 against 申, with 亥

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

Clashes with

申 (Monkey) — 壬申

Combines with

亥 (Pig) — 乙亥

Nayin: 炉中火

Nayin (納音) groups the cycle in pairs, each with an image. This one shares its image with 丁卯: 炉中火, “fire in the furnace.”

How 丙寅 is conventionally read

丙 is the sun itself: visible, outward, impossible to keep indoors. 寅 is the first month, the push that begins the year.

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

When the next 丙寅 days fall

The sixty-cycle repeats every sixty days, so this pillar returns roughly every two months. The next one is 18 December 2026 (Friday). Each is calculated at midday Beijing time; a birth in the hour before midnight can still belong to the previous 丙寅 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 Wood — what produces the stem. The other five branches this stem sits on are 子 (Water), 戌 (Earth), 申 (Metal), 午 (Fire), 辰 (Earth).