Water of the great stream

Meaning

Water of the great stream runs broad and lively through the valley in spring, fed by many smaller brooks. The tradition reads energy and openness, a current that grows by gathering what joins it.

It is the Na Yin of two pillars that follow each other, Jia Yin and Yi Mao, the 26th 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 sea.

In practice

• Its two pillars, Jia Yin, the Yang Wood Tiger, and Yi Mao, the Yin Wood Rabbit: a Water sound for two Wood 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: 1854–1855, 1914–1915, 1974–1975, 2034–2035, 2094–2095 and 2154–2155, 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 51st and the 52nd, Jia Yin and Yi Mao. The tradition draws its phase from the numbers of its four characters: for 甲寅 and 乙卯, 9 + 7 + 8 + 6 = 30; 49 − 30 = 19, whose 9 gives Metal, and Metal produces Water, the Na Yin’s phase.

Correspondences