Earth on the city wall

Meaning

Earth on the city wall is earth raised into ramparts, guarding the town behind it. The tradition reads protection and responsibility, a firmness that others shelter behind and that stands for a community.

It is the Na Yin of two pillars that follow each other, Wu Yin and Ji Mao, the 8th of the thirty: a sound of Earth. The Na Yin gives each two pillars of the sixty-cycle an image and a phase, heard beside their stems and branches.

Earth sounds in six of the thirty: besides this one, Earth by the roadside, Earth on the roof, Earth on the wall, Earth of the great road and Earth in the sand.

In practice

• Its two pillars, Wu Yin, the Yang Earth Tiger, and Ji Mao, the Yin Earth Rabbit: a Earth sound for two Earth 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: 1818–1819, 1878–1879, 1938–1939, 1998–1999, 2058–2059, 2118–2119 and 2178–2179, 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 15th and the 16th, Wu Yin and Ji Mao. The tradition draws its phase from the numbers of its four characters: for 戊寅 and 己卯, 5 + 7 + 9 + 6 = 27; 49 − 27 = 22, whose 2 gives Fire, and Fire produces Earth, the Na Yin’s phase.

Correspondences