甲午 jia wu

甲 above, 午 below

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

Where 甲午 sits in the five elements

Metal and Water do not appear anywhere in this pillar.

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

What is buried inside 午

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

甲 meeting 午: the 死 stage

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

甲 meets 午 at the 死 stage — death.

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: 沙中金

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

How 甲午 is conventionally read

甲 is the first stem: upright, forward, the trunk of a tree rather than its branches. 午 is the peak of the light.

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

When the next 甲午 days fall

The sixty-cycle repeats every sixty days, so this pillar returns roughly every two months. The next one is 16 November 2026 (Monday). Each is calculated at midday Beijing time; a birth in the hour before midnight can still belong to the previous 甲午 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.

甲 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 the stem produces. The other five branches this stem sits on are 子 (Water), 戌 (Earth), 申 (Metal), 辰 (Earth), 寅 (Wood).