癸卯 gui mao

癸 above, 卯 below

The stem generates the branch: Water produces Wood. The upper half of the pillar feeds the lower half, so the visible stem is spending itself on what it sits above.

Where 癸卯 sits in the five elements

Fire, Earth and Metal do not appear anywhere in this pillar.

Wood leads at 52.4%, then water at 47.6%.

What is buried inside 卯

卯 hides a single stem, 乙 (Wood) — what the stem produces.

癸 meeting 卯: the 長生 stage

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

癸 meets 卯 at the 長生 stage — birth.

卯 against 酉, with 戌

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

Clashes with

酉 (Rooster) — 癸酉

Combines with

戌 (Dog) — 甲戌

Nayin: 金箔金

Nayin (納音) groups the cycle in pairs, each with an image. This one shares its image with 壬寅: 金箔金, “gold leaf.”

How 癸卯 is conventionally read

癸 is water that arrives quietly: rain, mist, groundwater. 卯 is early spring at its purest, entirely growth.

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

When the next 癸卯 days fall

The sixty-cycle repeats every sixty days, so this pillar returns roughly every two months. The next one is 25 November 2026 (Wednesday). Each is calculated at midday Beijing time; a birth in the hour before midnight can still belong to the previous 癸卯 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.

癸 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 the stem produces. The other five branches this stem sits on are 酉 (Metal), 未 (Earth), 巳 (Fire), 丑 (Earth), 亥 (Water).