炉中火 · Fire in the Furnace

lú zhōng huǒ · the Na Yin of 丙寅 and 丁卯

炉中火 Fire in the Furnace, lú zhōng huǒ, is the Na Yin of the pillars 丙寅 and 丁卯: a Fire 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 丙寅 or 丁卯 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

火 Fire

Pillars

丙寅丁卯

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

丙寅丁卯

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.