60 Jiazi 六十甲子
Yang Earth Dragon (戊辰) in BaZi
Yang Earth Dragon is Jiazi pillar #5: Yang Earth over the Dragon branch, a deterministic stem-branch combination used in BaZi year, month, day, and hour pillars.
Yang Earth Dragon (戊辰) is number 5 in the 60 Jiazi cycle. It combines the Yang Earth heavenly stem 戊 with the Dragon earthly branch 辰. Read it as a pillar ingredient, not as a complete chart verdict.
#5 · Wu Chen
| Cycle number | 5 / 60 |
| Heavenly stem | 戊 · Yang Earth |
| Earthly branch | 辰 · Dragon |
| Branch season | late spring |
| Hidden stems | 戊, 乙, 癸 |
What this pillar describes
Yang Earth Dragon is a stem-branch pair, not a standalone personality type. The heavenly stem shows the visible qi on top; the earthly branch shows the seasonal container underneath. The hidden stems inside the branch explain why a pillar can carry more than one layer of meaning.
The Dragon branch belongs to late spring and carries hidden stems 戊, 乙, 癸. In a real reading, Pillarwise weighs this pillar against the day master, season, Ten Gods, roots, combinations, and clashes before drawing any life-area meaning.
In practice, the same Jiazi pillar reads differently when it appears as a year pillar, month pillar, day pillar, or hour pillar. Pillarwise keeps this page as a deterministic reference, then lets the calculator decide how the pillar behaves inside the whole chart.
How Pillarwise uses this reference
First identify where 戊辰 appears: year, month, day, hour, luck pillar, or annual timing. The same row is data; the chart position gives it function.
The branch is checked for combinations, clashes, harms, and roots against the rest of the chart. Those relationships decide whether the pillar supports, exposes, or redirects a pattern.
The stem and hidden stems become Ten Gods only after they are compared to the day master. That is why this page avoids turning a single pillar into a fixed verdict.
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Questions 問答
Frequently asked
戊辰 is number 5 of the 60 stem-branch combinations.
Its heavenly stem is 戊 (Wu), Yang Earth.
Its earthly branch is 辰 (Chen), commonly associated with the Dragon.