乙未 yi wei

乙 above, 未 below

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

Where 乙未 sits in the five elements

Metal and Water do not appear anywhere in this pillar.

Wood leads at 48.1%, then earth at 40.7%.

What is buried inside 未

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

乙 meeting 未: the 養 stage

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

乙 meets 未 at the 養 stage — nurture.

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: 沙中金

Nayin (納音) groups the cycle in pairs, each with an image. This one shares its image with 甲午: 沙中金, “gold in the sand.”

How 乙未 is conventionally read

乙 is the same wood as 甲, but as a vine that bends and keeps climbing. 未 is dry earth after the heat, when things soften.

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

When the next 乙未 days fall

The sixty-cycle repeats every sixty days, so this pillar returns roughly every two months. The next one is 17 November 2026 (Tuesday). Each is calculated at midday Beijing time; a birth in the hour before midnight can still belong to the previous 乙未 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.

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 Earth — what the stem restrains. The other five branches this stem sits on are 丑 (Earth), 亥 (Water), 酉 (Metal), 巳 (Fire), 卯 (Wood).