丁未 ding wei

丁 above, 未 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 丁未 sits in the five elements

Metal and Water do not appear anywhere in this pillar.

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

What is buried inside 未

未 hides 3 stems. The primary is 己 (Earth), what the stem produces; behind it sit 丁 (Fire, the same element as the stem) and 乙 (Wood, what produces the stem).

丁 meeting 未: the 冠帶 stage

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

丁 meets 未 at the 冠帶 stage — cap and girdle.

未 against 丑, with 午

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

Clashes with

丑 (Ox) — 乙丑

Combines with

午 (Horse) — 庚午

Nayin: 天河水

Nayin (納音) groups the cycle in pairs, each with an image. This one shares its image with 丙午: 天河水, “water of the heavenly river.”

How 丁未 is conventionally read

丁 is a flame held in the hand: smaller than 丙, more deliberate, warmer at close range. 未 is dry earth after the heat, when things soften.

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 丁未 days fall

The sixty-cycle repeats every sixty days, so this pillar returns roughly every two months. The next one is 29 November 2026 (Sunday). Each is calculated at midday Beijing time; a birth in the hour before midnight can still belong to the previous 丁未 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 Earth — what the stem produces. The other five branches this stem sits on are 卯 (Wood), 丑 (Earth), 亥 (Water), 酉 (Metal), 巳 (Fire).