Fire

Fire element compatibility: its best match is the stem union, 丙 Yang Fire + 辛 Yin Metal. Fire is the element of warmth and visibility. Its yang stem (丙) is pictured as the sun, shining on everyone at once, and its yin stem (丁) as a candle, a smaller light you carry into a dark room. Fire people are sketched as expressive, generous and quick to react, the ones who light up a table and sometimes burn out by Sunday. The sun is open and bold; the candle is warmer up close and more private. In the cycles fire is fed by wood and feeds earth, so wood and earth years tend to read as easy company. Fire tames metal and is tamed by water, the tradition's picture of a pair that clashes. In our scores each fire stem's best match is its union: yang fire with yin metal (丙辛) and yin fire with yang water (丁壬).

Feeds

Earth

Fed by

Wood

Tames

Metal

Tamed by

Water

Points are our own design on top of the traditional cycles: stem union 92, generating 86, same element 76, controlling 58, ±2 for yin and yang. Year stem only — not a saju reading.