Water of the Milky Way

Meaning

Water of the Milky Way is the river of heaven, the rain that falls from the sky on every field alike in summer. The tradition reads a generous, wide-reaching kindness, given from above without choosing where it lands.

It is the Na Yin of two pillars that follow each other, Bing Wu and Ding Wei, the 22nd 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, Water from the spring, Long-flowing water, Water of the great stream and Water of the great sea.

In practice

• Its two pillars, Bing Wu, the Yang Fire Horse, and Ding Wei, the Yin Fire Goat: a Water sound for two Fire 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: 1846–1847, 1906–1907, 1966–1967, 2026–2027, 2086–2087 and 2146–2147, 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 43rd and the 44th, Bing Wu and Ding Wei. The tradition draws its phase from the numbers of its four characters: for 丙午 and 丁未, 7 + 9 + 6 + 8 = 30; 49 − 30 = 19, whose 9 gives Metal, and Metal produces Water, the Na Yin’s phase.

Correspondences