Heavenly Stem 3 of 10
Bing丙
Yang fire. Tradition pictures the sun.
- Element
- Fire
- Polarity
- Yang
- Direction
- South
- Season
- Summer
丙火猛烈，欺霜侮雪。能煅庚金，逢辛反怯。土眾成慈，水猖顯節。虎馬犬鄉，甲木若來，必當焚滅。
Di Tian Sui
What it is
The verse calls Bing fierce enough to defy frost and snow. It can forge 庚 Geng metal, yet turns shy before 辛 Xin, the stem it combines with.
In a chart
If this is the stem of your day pillar, it is your Day Master, and the rest of the chart is read against it.
Relations
丙 Bing combines with 辛 Xin, turning to Water. It clashes with 壬 Ren.
Sources Di Tian Sui Chan Wei; Xie Ji Bian Fang Shu, vol. 1.