Pine and cypress wood

Meaning

Pine and cypress wood is the evergreen that keeps its needles through the frost, the classic image of an upright character. The tradition reads endurance, integrity and a long life of steady growth.

It is the Na Yin of two pillars that follow each other, Geng Yin and Xin Mao, the 14th of the thirty: a sound of Wood. The Na Yin gives each two pillars of the sixty-cycle an image and a phase, heard beside their stems and branches.

Wood sounds in six of the thirty: besides this one, Wood of the great forest, Willow wood, Wood of the plain, Mulberry wood and Pomegranate wood.

In practice

• Its two pillars, Geng Yin, the Yang Metal Tiger, and Xin Mao, the Yin Metal Rabbit: a Wood sound for two Metal 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: 1830–1831, 1890–1891, 1950–1951, 2010–2011, 2070–2071, 2130–2131 and 2190–2191, 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 27th and the 28th, Geng Yin and Xin Mao. The tradition draws its phase from the numbers of its four characters: for 庚寅 and 辛卯, 8 + 7 + 7 + 6 = 28; 49 − 28 = 21, whose 1 gives Water, and Water produces Wood, the Na Yin’s phase.

Correspondences