丁丑 Day Pillar · Ding · Ox

점박사 편집팀 · 수정일 2026-08-19

A lamp letting its energy flow into late-winter soil.

Stem Ding (丁) · Branch Ox (丑)

Ding (丁) is yin Fire, which the Dichten Sui calls soft within, its inner nature bright and harmonious (丁火柔中, 內性昭融), and Chou (丑) is the Earth of late winter (季冬). At a place where fire gives rise to earth (火生土), the yin fire lets its energy flow into late-winter soil — an Output (leaking) position.

How to read this pairing

Jeombaksa reads this as a lamp-like yin fire letting its energy flow into late-winter soil. This is only the imagery of a two-character pairing; actual tendencies must be read with the other six characters and the season.

What the combination shows

• Soft yin fire (Ding) letting its energy flow into late-winter soil (Chou earth)
• An Output (leaking) place (火生土) where the yin-fire energy seeps out into late-winter soil
• Even in the same 火生土, unlike late-summer soil (Ding-Wei), this one lets its energy flow into late-winter soil

A note of caution

Within these two characters only Fire and Earth show; the other six characters of the chart may hold other elements. Don’t judge character from the Day Pillar’s two characters alone.

Questions to ask yourself (work · relationships)

Work · By what do you decide where to send out the outgoing energy and where to hold it?

Relationships · By what do you watch, in a relationship, that giving energy again and again doesn’t empty you within?

Related pages

• Ding (丁) Day Masterthe stem (the ‘self’) of this pillar
• 丁巳 Day PillarA soft but long-burning flame that lights one place deeply.
• 丁酉 Day PillarA lamp meeting autumn metal.
• 丁卯 Day PillarFull-spring wood lighting a lamp.
• 丁未 Day PillarA lamp giving its energy to late-summer soil.
• 丁亥 Day PillarEarly-winter water working a lamp.

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