60 Jiazi 六十甲子
Yang Water Monkey (壬申) in BaZi
Yang Water Monkey is Jiazi pillar #9: Yang Water over the Monkey branch, a deterministic stem-branch combination used in BaZi year, month, day, and hour pillars.
Yang Water Monkey (壬申) is number 9 in the 60 Jiazi cycle. It combines the Yang Water heavenly stem 壬 with the Monkey earthly branch 申. Read it as a pillar ingredient, not as a complete chart verdict.
#9 · Ren Shen
| Cycle number | 9 / 60 |
| Heavenly stem | 壬 · Yang Water |
| Earthly branch | 申 · Monkey |
| Branch season | early autumn |
| Hidden stems | 庚, 壬, 戊 |
What this pillar describes
Yang Water Monkey 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 Monkey branch belongs to early autumn and carries hidden stems 庚, 壬, 戊. 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 壬申 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
壬申 is number 9 of the 60 stem-branch combinations.
Its heavenly stem is 壬 (Ren), Yang Water.
Its earthly branch is 申 (Shen), commonly associated with the Monkey.