霹雳火 · Thunderbolt Fire

pī lì huǒ · the Na Yin of 戊子 and 己丑

霹雳火 Thunderbolt Fire, pī lì huǒ, is the Na Yin of the pillars 戊子 and 己丑: 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 戊子 or 己丑 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

火 Fire

Pillars

戊子己丑

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

戊子己丑

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.