沙中金 · Gold in the Sand

shā zhōng jīn · the Na Yin of 甲午 and 乙未

沙中金 Gold in the Sand, shā zhōng jīn, is the Na Yin of the pillars 甲午 and 乙未: 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 甲午 or 乙未 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

甲午乙未

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

甲午乙未

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.