辛未 xin wei

辛 above, 未 below

The branch generates the stem: Earth produces Metal. This is the more comfortable arrangement of the two — the ground under the stem is feeding it rather than draining it.

Where 辛未 sits in the five elements

Water does not appear anywhere in this pillar.

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

What is buried inside 未

未 hides 3 stems. The primary is 己 (Earth), what produces the stem; behind it sit 丁 (Fire, what restrains the stem) and 乙 (Wood, what the stem restrains).

辛 meeting 未: the 衰 stage

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

辛 meets 未 at the 衰 stage — decline.

未 against 丑, with 午

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

Clashes with

丑 (Ox) — 乙丑

Combines with

午 (Horse) — 庚午

Nayin: 路旁土

Nayin (納音) groups the cycle in pairs, each with an image. This one shares its image with 庚午: 路旁土, “earth by the roadside.”

How 辛未 is conventionally read

辛 is finished metal: jewellery, a needle, the edge that has been honed. 未 is dry earth after the heat, when things soften.

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

When the next 辛未 days fall

The sixty-cycle repeats every sixty days, so this pillar returns roughly every two months. The next one is 23 December 2026 (Wednesday). Each is calculated at midday Beijing time; a birth in the hour before midnight can still belong to the previous 辛未 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 Earth — what produces the stem. The other five branches this stem sits on are 巳 (Fire), 卯 (Wood), 丑 (Earth), 亥 (Water), 酉 (Metal).