Pair 8 of the sixty

Metal Goat辛未

Roadside Earth, the Na Yin of this pair.

Na Yin
Roadside Earth
Stem
辛 Xin
Branch
未 Goat
Element
Earth
辛未
Stem above, branch below

庚午辛未路旁土者未中之木而生午位之旺火火旺則土焦未能育物猶路旁土若也故曰路旁土也

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

1931 · 1991 · 2051

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