壬辰 ren chen

壬 above, 辰 below

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

Where 壬辰 sits in the five elements

Fire and Metal do not appear anywhere in this pillar.

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

What is buried inside 辰

辰 hides 3 stems. The primary is 戊 (Earth), what restrains the stem; behind it sit 乙 (Wood, what the stem produces) and 癸 (Water, the same element as the stem).

壬 meeting 辰: the 墓 stage

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

壬 meets 辰 at the 墓 stage — tomb.

辰 against 戌, with 酉

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

Clashes with

戌 (Dog) — 甲戌

Combines with

酉 (Rooster) — 癸酉

Nayin: 长流水

Nayin (納音) groups the cycle in pairs, each with an image. This one shares its image with 癸巳: 长流水, “water of the long stream.”

How 壬辰 is conventionally read

壬 is a moving body of water: river, current, the sea in motion. 辰 is damp earth that holds water and receives what falls.

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

When the next 壬辰 days fall

The sixty-cycle repeats every sixty days, so this pillar returns roughly every two months. The next one is 14 November 2026 (Saturday). Each is calculated at midday Beijing time; a birth in the hour before midnight can still belong to the previous 壬辰 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.

壬 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 restrains the stem. The other five branches this stem sits on are 申 (Metal), 午 (Fire), 寅 (Wood), 子 (Water), 戌 (Earth).