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Seasonal stage
Composting — The Fallen Soil
Fallen leaves settle into the earth, becoming next year’s soil. As a stage in your chart or in the turning year, it tends towards stabilisation: a good window for reflection, lessons learned and preparing next season.
Classical equivalent · Earthly Branch (地支)
戌 Xu (Dog) — Oct – early Nov
Function in the cycle: Stabilisation
Strengths
- Turns experience into soil
- Quiet processing
- Prepares next year
Blind spots
- Dwells in the past
- Underrates slow work
- Isolates
The classic side · 地支 Earthly Branch
戌 Xu · The Dog
戌 is dry late-autumn earth — hills and earthworks (戊) with the last glint of autumn’s gold (辛), keeping a small hearth-fire (丁) alive as the tomb and treasury of Fire (火庫). Loyalty, duty, justice and protectiveness; the guardian at the gate as the year closes.
The spirit animal: An amber hunting hound standing guard over dry hills at dusk.
- Element
- Yang Earth — Dry Earth storage
- Season
- Late autumn · 9th month · 寒露 to 立冬 (about 8 Oct – 6 Nov)
- Hours
- 19:00 – 21:00
- Direction
- West-northwest
- Family
- 四庫 storage · the Fire store
藏干 Hidden elements
- 戊 WuYang Earth — mountains and boulders本氣 main qi60%
- Yin Metal — gold and jewels餘氣 residual qi30%
- Yin Fire — hearth and candle fire庫氣 stored10%
Relationships
- 六沖 Clash: 戌辰
- 六合 Harmony: 戌卯 → Fire
- 三合 Frame: 寅午戌 → Fire
Hidden-element shares are the usual teaching approximation.
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