戊寅 wu yin

戊 above, 寅 below

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

Where 戊寅 sits in the five elements

Metal and Water do not appear anywhere in this pillar.

Earth leads at 48.1%, then wood at 40.7%.

What is buried inside 寅

寅 hides 3 stems. The primary is 甲 (Wood), what restrains the stem; behind it sit 丙 (Fire, what produces the stem) and 戊 (Earth, the same element as the stem).

戊 meeting 寅: the 長生 stage

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

戊 meets 寅 at the 長生 stage — birth.

寅 against 申, with 亥

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

Clashes with

申 (Monkey) — 壬申

Combines with

亥 (Pig) — 乙亥

Nayin: 城头土

Nayin (納音) groups the cycle in pairs, each with an image. This one shares its image with 己卯: 城头土, “earth on the city wall.”

How 戊寅 is conventionally read

戊 is a mountain or a wall: weight that stays where it is put. 寅 is the first month, the push that begins the year.

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

When the next 戊寅 days fall

The sixty-cycle repeats every sixty days, so this pillar returns roughly every two months. The next one is 31 October 2026 (Saturday). Each is calculated at midday Beijing time; a birth in the hour before midnight can still belong to the previous 戊寅 day, because the day rolls at 23:00 true solar time.

Showing up to eight of the 7 occurrences in the next twelve months, from 2026-10-31.

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