Gui Mao · Yin Water Rabbit

Meaning

Gui Mao is the spring rain on the Rabbit’s new leaves, Water giving itself to the Wood it produces, and the yin water is born here. The tradition reads sensitivity and imagination, a care that makes things grow without being seen.

Gui over Mao: yin Water over yin Wood, a stem that produces its branch, as Water produces Wood.

Gui, Yin Water, is the rain and the dew: gentle, everywhere, giving life quietly. The Rabbit is gentle, refined and tactful.

The zodiac reads a Gui Mao year as the Water Rabbit’s. The Water Rabbit is the most sensitive of the Rabbits: intuitive, empathic, attuned to every mood around it. Its imagination is rich, and it does well to shelter from other people’s storms.

Its Na Yin, shared with Ren Yin, is Gold leaf metal (金箔金 jīnbó jīn): a sound of Metal, heard beside the pillar’s Water and Wood.

In practice

• As a year, from Lichun, around 4 February: 1843, 1903, 1963, 2023, 2083 and 2143, in the 1800–2200 table.
• As a month: the Rabbit month of every Ding or Ren year, opened by Awakening of Insects, as in the solar years 2022 and 2027.
• As a day, every sixty days: in 2026, on 29 January, 30 March, 29 May, 28 July, 26 September and 25 November.
• As an hour: the Rabbit’s double hour, 05:00–07:00, of Ding and Ren days.
• As a day pillar, its stem is the Day Master, Gui, sitting on Mao, the partner palace: Mao holds Yi, Gui’s Eating God, and Gui stands at its Birth stage there.
• As a luck pillar or a year, it brings each Day Master the god of its stem and the god of its branch’s main qi: the Correspondences below give them for all ten.

Across traditions

• In Japan, Korea and Vietnam the same pillar is mizunoto-u, gyemyo and Quý Mão, with each language’s readings of 癸 and 卯.

How Ulune calculates it

Gui Mao is the 40th of the sixty pillars: the 10th of the ten stems over the 4th of the twelve branches, which the cycle moves on one step together, so that a stem only ever meets the branches of its polarity. Ulune counts a year’s pillar from Lichun, 1984 being Jia Zi; a month’s twelve a year through the cycle, from Bing Yin in the Tiger month of 1984 (the rule of the five tigers); a day’s by the count of days, 1 January 2000 being Wu Wu; an hour’s twelve a day (the rule of the five rats).

Gui Mao belongs to the ten-day week from Jia Wu to Gui Mao, whose stems meet the branches from Wu to Mao and leave out Chen and Si: for a day pillar of this week, those are the empty branches. Its Na Yin is the 20th of the thirty, one for each two pillars.

Correspondences