山头火 · Fire on the Mountain Top

shān tóu huǒ · the Na Yin of 甲戌 and 乙亥

山头火 Fire on the Mountain Top, shān tóu huǒ, is the Na Yin of the pillars 甲戌 and 乙亥: 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 甲戌 or 乙亥 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

甲戌乙亥

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

甲戌乙亥

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.