海中金 · Gold in the Sea

hǎi zhōng jīn · the Na Yin of 甲子 and 乙丑

海中金 Gold in the Sea, hǎi zhōng jīn, is the Na Yin of the pillars 甲子 and 乙丑: a Metal element with an image of its own, one of the thirty Na Yin of the sixty-pillar cycle. Any pillar of a chart, and any day in the almanac, that is 甲子 or 乙丑 carries it.

Na Yin 纳音, the "received sound", gives each pair of pillars in the sixty-cycle an element and an image of its own. It is read alongside the elements of the stem and branch, not instead of them, and the element it names can differ from both.

The facts

Element

金 Metal

Pillars

甲子乙丑

Each Na Yin covers two consecutive pillars of the sixty-cycle.

甲子乙丑

Where you meet it

• Under each pillar in the Pro chart view.
• On every almanac day page, for the day pillar.

Na Yin is one layer among several. It adds an image to a pillar; it does not replace the elements of its stem and branch.