Jia Yin · Yang Wood Tiger

Meaning

Jia Yin stands the tall tree in its own forest, the stem on the branch of its stipend, and opens the sixth and last of the cycle’s weeks. The tradition reads self-reliance and warmth, a leader who grows by bringing others along.

Jia over Yin: yang Wood over yang Wood, a stem standing on its own phase.

Jia, Yang Wood, is the tall tree: upright, growing towards the light, steady in its roots. The Tiger is brave, magnetic and independent.

The zodiac reads a Jia Yin year as the Wood Tiger’s. The Wood Tiger is the most open of the Tigers: warm, inventive, a leader who brings people along rather than driving them. Its courage serves a cause; its attention can wander to the next one.

Its Na Yin, shared with Yi Mao, is Water of the great stream (大溪水 dàxī shuǐ): a sound of Water, heard beside the pillar’s Wood.

In practice

• As a year, from Lichun, around 4 February: 1854, 1914, 1974, 2034, 2094 and 2154, in the 1800–2200 table.
• As a month: the Tiger month of every Wu or Gui year, opened by Start of Spring, as in the solar years 2023 and 2028.
• As a day, every sixty days: in 2026, on 9 February, 10 April, 9 June, 8 August, 7 October and 6 December.
• As an hour: the Tiger’s double hour, 03:00–05:00, of Wu and Gui days.
• As a day pillar, its stem is the Day Master, Jia, sitting on Yin, the partner palace: Yin holds Jia, Bing and Wu, Jia’s Companion, Eating God and Indirect Wealth, and Jia stands at its Prosperity 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 kinoe-tora, gap-in and Giáp Dần, with each language’s readings of 甲 and 寅.

How Ulune calculates it

Jia Yin is the 51st of the sixty pillars: the 1st of the ten stems over the 3rd 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).

Jia Yin opens the ten-day week from Jia Yin to Gui Hai, whose stems meet the branches from Yin to Hai and leave out Zi and Chou: for a day pillar of this week, those are the empty branches. Its Na Yin is the 26th of the thirty, one for each two pillars.

Correspondences