辛卯 xin mao

辛 above, 卯 below

The stem controls the branch: Metal restrains Wood. The pillar is internally under tension, and that tension is structural, not a mood.

Where 辛卯 sits in the five elements

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

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

What is buried inside 卯

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

辛 meeting 卯: the 絕 stage

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

辛 meets 卯 at the 絕 stage — severance.

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: 松柏木

Nayin (納音) groups the cycle in pairs, each with an image. This one shares its image with 庚寅: 松柏木, “wood of pine and cypress.”

How 辛卯 is conventionally read

辛 is finished metal: jewellery, a needle, the edge that has been honed. 卯 is early spring at its purest, entirely growth.

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

When the next 辛卯 days fall

The sixty-cycle repeats every sixty days, so this pillar returns roughly every two months. The next one is 13 November 2026 (Friday). Each is calculated at midday Beijing time; a birth in the hour before midnight can still belong to the previous 辛卯 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.

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