Fire on the mountain top

Meaning

Fire on the mountain top is the beacon on the peak, or the last sunlight on the heights at evening. The tradition reads a light that carries far and is seen by many, bright in the dusk and best kept burning steadily.

It is the Na Yin of two pillars that follow each other, Jia Xu and Yi Hai, the 6th of the thirty: a sound of Fire. The Na Yin gives each two pillars of the sixty-cycle an image and a phase, heard beside their stems and branches.

Fire sounds in six of the thirty: besides this one, Fire in the furnace, Fire of the thunderbolt, Fire at the foot of the mountain, Fire of the lamp and Fire in the sky.

In practice

• Its two pillars, Jia Xu, the Yang Wood Dog, and Yi Hai, the Yin Wood Pig: a Fire 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: 1814–1815, 1874–1875, 1934–1935, 1994–1995, 2054–2055, 2114–2115 and 2174–2175, 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 11th and the 12th, Jia Xu and Yi Hai. The tradition draws its phase from the numbers of its four characters: for 甲戌 and 乙亥, 9 + 5 + 8 + 4 = 26; 49 − 26 = 23, whose 3 gives Wood, and Wood produces Fire, the Na Yin’s phase.

Correspondences