辛酉 xin you

辛 above, 酉 below

The stem and the branch carry the same element (Metal), which is the most single-minded pairing in the cycle. Nothing here pulls in two directions.

Where 辛酉 sits in the five elements

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

Metal leads at 100.0% — a single element filling the whole pillar, the purest configuration in the cycle.

What is buried inside 酉

酉 hides a single stem, 辛 (Metal) — the same element as the stem.

辛 meeting 酉: the 臨官 stage

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

辛 meets 酉 at the 臨官 stage — office.

酉 against 卯, with 辰

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

Clashes with

卯 (Rabbit) — 丁卯

Combines with

辰 (Dragon) — 戊辰

Nayin: 石榴木

Nayin (納音) groups the cycle in pairs, each with an image. This one shares its image with 庚申: 石榴木, “wood of the pomegranate.”

How 辛酉 is conventionally read

辛 is finished metal: jewellery, a needle, the edge that has been honed. 酉 is autumn at its purest, everything weighed and cut to shape.

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

When the next 辛酉 days fall

The sixty-cycle repeats every sixty days, so this pillar returns roughly every two months. The next one is 13 December 2026 (Sunday). Each is calculated at midday Beijing time; a birth in the hour before midnight can still belong to the previous 辛酉 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 Metal — the same element as the stem. The other five branches this stem sits on are 未 (Earth), 巳 (Fire), 卯 (Wood), 丑 (Earth), 亥 (Water).