天上火 · Fire in the Sky

tiān shàng huǒ · the Na Yin of 戊午 and 己未

天上火 Fire in the Sky, tiān shàng huǒ, is the Na Yin of the pillars 戊午 and 己未: 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 戊午 or 己未 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

火 Fire

Pillars

戊午己未

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

戊午己未

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.