庚午 geng wu

庚 above, 午 below

The branch controls the stem: Fire restrains Metal. The stem is working against its own footing, which shows up as effort that costs more than it should.

Where 庚午 sits in the five elements

Wood and Water do not appear anywhere in this pillar.

Fire leads at 45.8%, then metal at 41.7%.

What is buried inside 午

午 hides 2 stems. The primary is 丁 (Fire), what restrains the stem; behind it sit 己 (Earth, what produces the stem).

庚 meeting 午: the 沐浴 stage

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

庚 meets 午 at the 沐浴 stage — bath.

午 against 子, with 未

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

Clashes with

子 (Rat) — 甲子

Combines with

未 (Goat) — 辛未

Nayin: 路旁土

Nayin (納音) groups the cycle in pairs, each with an image. This one shares its image with 辛未: 路旁土, “earth by the roadside.”

How 庚午 is conventionally read

庚 is unworked metal: the blade before it is polished. 午 is the peak of the light.

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

When the next 庚午 days fall

The sixty-cycle repeats every sixty days, so this pillar returns roughly every two months. The next one is 22 December 2026 (Tuesday). Each is calculated at midday Beijing time; a birth in the hour before midnight can still belong to the previous 庚午 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.

庚 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 — what restrains the stem. The other five branches this stem sits on are 辰 (Earth), 寅 (Wood), 子 (Water), 戌 (Earth), 申 (Metal).