乙酉 yi you

乙 above, 酉 below

The branch controls the stem: Metal restrains Wood. The stem is working against its own footing, which shows up as effort that costs more than it should.

Where 乙酉 sits in the five elements

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

Metal leads at 52.4%, then wood at 47.6%.

What is buried inside 酉

酉 hides a single stem, 辛 (Metal) — what restrains the stem.

乙 meeting 酉: the 絕 stage

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

乙 meets 酉 at the 絕 stage — severance.

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: 泉中水

Nayin (納音) groups the cycle in pairs, each with an image. This one shares its image with 甲申: 泉中水, “water in the spring.”

How 乙酉 is conventionally read

乙 is the same wood as 甲, but as a vine that bends and keeps climbing. 酉 is autumn at its purest, everything weighed and cut to shape.

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

When the next 乙酉 days fall

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

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