丁酉 ding you

丁 above, 酉 below

The stem controls the branch: Fire restrains Metal. The pillar is internally under tension, and that tension is structural, not a mood.

Where 丁酉 sits in the five elements

Wood, Earth and Water do not appear anywhere in this pillar.

Metal leads at 52.4%, then fire at 47.6%.

What is buried inside 酉

酉 hides a single stem, 辛 (Metal) — what the stem restrains.

丁 meeting 酉: the 長生 stage

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

丁 meets 酉 at the 長生 stage — birth.

酉 against 卯, with 辰

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

Clashes with

卯 (Rabbit) — 丁卯

Combines with

辰 (Dragon) — 戊辰

Nayin: 山下火

Nayin (納音) groups the cycle in pairs, each with an image. This one shares its image with 丙申: 山下火, “fire at the mountain foot.”

How 丁酉 is conventionally read

丁 is a flame held in the hand: smaller than 丙, more deliberate, warmer at close range. 酉 is autumn at its purest, everything weighed and cut to shape.

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

When the next 丁酉 days fall

The sixty-cycle repeats every sixty days, so this pillar returns roughly every two months. The next one is 19 November 2026 (Thursday). Each is calculated at midday Beijing time; a birth in the hour before midnight can still belong to the previous 丁酉 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 Metal — what the stem restrains. The other five branches this stem sits on are 卯 (Wood), 丑 (Earth), 亥 (Water), 未 (Earth), 巳 (Fire).