Water from the spring

Meaning

Water from the spring wells up clean from the ground, small at its source and never running dry. The tradition reads purity and constancy, a resource that renews itself and feeds whatever is downstream.

It is the Na Yin of two pillars that follow each other, Jia Shen and Yi You, the 11th 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, Long-flowing water, Water of the Milky Way, Water of the great stream and Water of the great sea.

In practice

• Its two pillars, Jia Shen, the Yang Wood Monkey, and Yi You, the Yin Wood Rooster: 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: 1824–1825, 1884–1885, 1944–1945, 2004–2005, 2064–2065, 2124–2125 and 2184–2185, 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 21st and the 22nd, Jia Shen and Yi You. The tradition draws its phase from the numbers of its four characters: for 甲申 and 乙酉, 9 + 7 + 8 + 6 = 30; 49 − 30 = 19, whose 9 gives Metal, and Metal produces Water, the Na Yin’s phase.

Correspondences