Metal of hairpins and bracelets

Meaning

Metal of hairpins and bracelets is metal worked into jewellery, small, fine and worn close to a person. The tradition reads refinement, taste and a value that is cherished rather than displayed.

It is the Na Yin of two pillars that follow each other, Geng Xu and Xin Hai, the 24th 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 of white wax, Metal in the sand and Gold leaf metal.

In practice

• Its two pillars, Geng Xu, the Yang Metal Dog, and Xin Hai, the Yin Metal Pig: 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: 1850–1851, 1910–1911, 1970–1971, 2030–2031, 2090–2091 and 2150–2151, 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 47th and the 48th, Geng Xu and Xin Hai. The tradition draws its phase from the numbers of its four characters: for 庚戌 and 辛亥, 8 + 5 + 7 + 4 = 24; 49 − 24 = 25, whose 5 gives Earth, and Earth produces Metal, the Na Yin’s phase.

Correspondences