Fire in the sky

Meaning

Fire in the sky is the sun itself, the fire of heaven that lights and warms everything at midsummer. The tradition reads radiance and generosity on a large scale, a light that does not need to be fed.

It is the Na Yin of two pillars that follow each other, Wu Wu and Ji Wei, the 28th 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 on the mountain top, Fire of the thunderbolt, Fire at the foot of the mountain and Fire of the lamp.

In practice

• Its two pillars, Wu Wu, the Yang Earth Horse, and Ji Wei, the Yin Earth Goat: a Fire sound for two Earth 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: 1858–1859, 1918–1919, 1978–1979, 2038–2039, 2098–2099 and 2158–2159, 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 55th and the 56th, Wu Wu and Ji Wei. The tradition draws its phase from the numbers of its four characters: for 戊午 and 己未, 5 + 9 + 9 + 8 = 31; 49 − 31 = 18, whose 8 gives Wood, and Wood produces Fire, the Na Yin’s phase.

Correspondences