丙 · Yang Fire

bǐng · 丙火 · the third heavenly stem

丙 bǐng is the third of the ten heavenly stems in BaZi: Yang Fire, the stem of summer and the South. The heavenly stems are the upper half of each pillar in a chart, and the stem of the day pillar is the Day Master, the person the chart is about. 丙 combines with 辛 into Water and clashes with 壬.

The sun: warmth that reaches everyone and hides nothing. Where 丁 is a candle, 丙 lights the whole landscape. People with a 丙 Day Master tend to be open, generous and hard to ignore.

Readings are interpretations. Different traditions describe the same stem differently, and what a stem means in a chart depends on the company it keeps: the month it sits in, the branch beneath it and the balance of the other elements.

The facts

Element

火 Fire

Polarity

阳 Yang

Season

Summer 夏

Direction

South 南

Combines with

辛 →水 Water

Clashes with

壬 Yang Water

Combination and clash are the standard stem relations the engine uses. They describe the pair, not a person.

Where you meet it

• As a Day Master, the stem of your day pillar: the person the chart is about.
• In any other pillar, where it is read through the Ten Gods relative to your Day Master.
• Hidden inside a branch: 丙 hides in 寅 Tiger and 巳 Snake.

In the app, tapping any 丙 in your chart opens this entry, with one line on what it is doing in your chart. That line needs your pillars, so it is not on this page.