丁巳 ding si

丁 above, 巳 below

The stem and the branch carry the same element (Fire), which is the most single-minded pairing in the cycle. Nothing here pulls in two directions.

Where 丁巳 sits in the five elements

Wood and Water do not appear anywhere in this pillar.

Fire leads at 77.8%, then earth at 11.1%.

What is buried inside 巳

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

丁 meeting 巳: the 帝旺 stage

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

丁 meets 巳 at the 帝旺 stage — peak.

巳 against 亥, with 申

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

Clashes with

亥 (Pig) — 乙亥

Combines with

申 (Monkey) — 壬申

Nayin: 沙中土

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

How 丁巳 is conventionally read

丁 is a flame held in the hand: smaller than 丙, more deliberate, warmer at close range. 巳 is the fire that has just caught, still gathering.

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

When the next 丁巳 days fall

The sixty-cycle repeats every sixty days, so this pillar returns roughly every two months. The next one is 9 December 2026 (Wednesday). Each is calculated at midday Beijing time; a birth in the hour before midnight can still belong to the previous 丁巳 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.

丁 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 Fire — the same element as the stem. The other five branches this stem sits on are 卯 (Wood), 丑 (Earth), 亥 (Water), 酉 (Metal), 未 (Earth).