Gold leaf metal

Meaning

Gold leaf metal is gold beaten so thin that it floats, laid on a frame or a statue to make it shine. The tradition reads brilliance and elegance that show at their best on the right ground.

It is the Na Yin of two pillars that follow each other, Ren Yin and Gui Mao, the 20th of the thirty: a sound of Metal. The Na Yin gives each two pillars of the sixty-cycle an image and a phase, heard beside their stems and branches.

Metal sounds in six of the thirty: besides this one, Metal in the sea, Metal of the sword’s edge, Metal of white wax, Metal in the sand and Metal of hairpins and bracelets.

In practice

• Its two pillars, Ren Yin, the Yang Water Tiger, and Gui Mao, the Yin Water Rabbit: a Metal 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: 1842–1843, 1902–1903, 1962–1963, 2022–2023, 2082–2083 and 2142–2143, 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 39th and the 40th, Ren Yin and Gui Mao. The tradition draws its phase from the numbers of its four characters: for 壬寅 and 癸卯, 6 + 7 + 5 + 6 = 24; 49 − 24 = 25, whose 5 gives Earth, and Earth produces Metal, the Na Yin’s phase.

Correspondences