Metal of white wax

Meaning

Metal of white wax is metal fresh from the ore, pale and still soft as wax, not yet set into its final shape. The tradition reads a refinement in the making, valuable and malleable, which needs the fire of experience to take its form.

It is the Na Yin of two pillars that follow each other, Geng Chen and Xin Si, the 9th of the thirty: a sound of Metal. The Na Yin gives each two pillars of the sixty-cycle an image and a phase, heard beside their stems and branches.

Metal sounds in six of the thirty: besides this one, Metal in the sea, Metal of the sword’s edge, Metal in the sand, Gold leaf metal and Metal of hairpins and bracelets.

In practice

• Its two pillars, Geng Chen, the Yang Metal Dragon, and Xin Si, the Yin Metal Snake: a Metal sound for two Metal stems, the Na Yin being a layer of its own beside the stem and the branch.
• On BaZi’s board, each pillar shows its Na Yin under its column, and its reading says what its phase is to the Day Master: the Correspondences below give it for all five phases.
• Its years, two in a row, each from Lichun: 1820–1821, 1880–1881, 1940–1941, 2000–2001, 2060–2061, 2120–2121 and 2180–2181, in the 1800–2200 table.
• In the zodiac’s table, each of the four places, the year, the month, the day and the hour, gives the Na Yin of its pillar.

How Ulune calculates it

Ulune reads a pillar’s Na Yin from the classical table of thirty (names.ts), one for each two pillars in the cycle’s order: this one for the 17th and the 18th, Geng Chen and Xin Si. The tradition draws its phase from the numbers of its four characters: for 庚辰 and 辛巳, 8 + 5 + 7 + 4 = 24; 49 − 24 = 25, whose 5 gives Earth, and Earth produces Metal, the Na Yin’s phase.

Correspondences