壬戌 ren xu

壬 above, 戌 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 壬戌 sits in the five elements

Wood does not appear anywhere in this pillar.

Earth leads at 40.7%, then water at 37.0%.

What is buried inside 戌

戌 hides 3 stems. The primary is 戊 (Earth), what restrains the stem; behind it sit 辛 (Metal, what produces the stem) and 丁 (Fire, what the stem restrains).

壬 meeting 戌: the 冠帶 stage

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

壬 meets 戌 at the 冠帶 stage — cap and girdle.

戌 against 辰, with 卯

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

Clashes with

辰 (Dragon) — 戊辰

Combines with

卯 (Rabbit) — 丁卯

Nayin: 大海水

Nayin (納音) groups the cycle in pairs, each with an image. This one shares its image with 癸亥: 大海水, “water of the great sea.”

How 壬戌 is conventionally read

壬 is a moving body of water: river, current, the sea in motion. 戌 is dry earth that closes the season and holds it.

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 壬戌 days fall

The sixty-cycle repeats every sixty days, so this pillar returns roughly every two months. The next one is 14 December 2026 (Monday). Each is calculated at midday Beijing time; a birth in the hour before midnight can still belong to the previous 壬戌 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), 辰 (Earth), 寅 (Wood), 子 (Water).