杨柳木 · Willow Wood

yáng liǔ mù · the Na Yin of 壬午 and 癸未

杨柳木 Willow Wood, yáng liǔ mù, is the Na Yin of the pillars 壬午 and 癸未: a Wood 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 壬午 or 癸未 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

木 Wood

Pillars

壬午癸未

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

壬午癸未

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.