Water of the great sea

Meaning

Water of the great sea is the ocean into which every river runs, the last image of the thirty. The tradition reads vastness and depth, a mind that takes everything in and gives it back as rain.

It is the Na Yin of two pillars that follow each other, Ren Xu and Gui Hai, the 30th of the thirty: a sound of Water. The Na Yin gives each two pillars of the sixty-cycle an image and a phase, heard beside their stems and branches.

Water sounds in six of the thirty: besides this one, Water in the ravine, Water from the spring, Long-flowing water, Water of the Milky Way and Water of the great stream.

In practice

• Its two pillars, Ren Xu, the Yang Water Dog, and Gui Hai, the Yin Water Pig: a Water sound for two Water 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: 1802–1803, 1862–1863, 1922–1923, 1982–1983, 2042–2043, 2102–2103 and 2162–2163, 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 59th and the 60th, Ren Xu and Gui Hai. The tradition draws its phase from the numbers of its four characters: for 壬戌 and 癸亥, 6 + 5 + 5 + 4 = 20; 49 − 20 = 29, whose 9 gives Metal, and Metal produces Water, the Na Yin’s phase.

Correspondences