Pair 55 of the sixty

Earth Horse戊午

Fire in the Sky, the Na Yin of this pair.

Na Yin
Fire in the Sky
Stem
戊 Wu
Branch
午 Horse
Element
Fire
戊午
Stem above, branch below

戊午己未天上火者午為火旺之地未中之木又復生之火性炎上又逢生地故曰天上火也

Tao Zongyi, in Xie Ji Bian Fang Shu

Why this name

Each pair of neighbours in the cycle shares a Na Yin, a poetic element. The explanation below is Tao Zongyi’s, quoted in Xie Ji Bian Fang Shu.

Years with this pair

1918 · 1978 · 2038 · 2098

Sources Xie Ji Bian Fang Shu, vol. 1, quoting Tao Zongyi.