乙卯 yi mao

乙 above, 卯 below

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

Where 乙卯 sits in the five elements

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

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

What is buried inside 卯

卯 hides a single stem, 乙 (Wood) — the same element as the stem.

乙 meeting 卯: the 臨官 stage

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

乙 meets 卯 at the 臨官 stage — office.

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: 大溪水

Nayin (納音) groups the cycle in pairs, each with an image. This one shares its image with 甲寅: 大溪水, “water of the great stream.”

How 乙卯 is conventionally read

乙 is the same wood as 甲, but as a vine that bends and keeps climbing. 卯 is early spring at its purest, entirely growth.

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

When the next 乙卯 days fall

The sixty-cycle repeats every sixty days, so this pillar returns roughly every two months. The next one is 7 December 2026 (Monday). Each is calculated at midday Beijing time; a birth in the hour before midnight can still belong to the previous 乙卯 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.

乙 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 — the same element as the stem. The other five branches this stem sits on are 丑 (Earth), 亥 (Water), 酉 (Metal), 未 (Earth), 巳 (Fire).