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Seasonal stage
Reaching — The Reaching Branch
A young tree stretches toward open sun, branches spreading. As a stage in your chart or in the turning year, it tends towards activation: a good window for expansion, pitching and growth.
Classical equivalent · Earthly Branch (地支)
巳 Si (Snake) — May – early Jun
Function in the cycle: Activation
Strengths
- Ambitious and expansive
- Seeks light and opportunity
- Joyful effort
Blind spots
- Overreaches
- Spreads too wide
- Neglects the roots
The classic side · 地支 Earthly Branch
巳 Si · The Snake
巳 begins summer (立夏). The sun (丙) climbs towards its height; Metal (庚) is quietly born inside the heat (Metal’s 長生), and the earth (戊) holds both. Insight, strategy, elegance and a mind that sees further than it says.
The spirit animal: A coiled serpent of rose-gold fire rising before a blazing sun over iron cliffs.
- Element
- Yin Fire — Developing Fire energy
- Season
- Early summer · 4th month · 立夏 to 芒種 (about 6 May – 5 Jun)
- Hours
- 09:00 – 11:00
- Direction
- South-southeast
- Family
- 四生 birth · 驛馬 travelling horse
藏干 Hidden elements
- 丙 BingYang Fire — the sun本氣 main qi60%
- Yang Metal — raw iron and blades中氣 middle qi30%
- 戊 WuYang Earth — mountains and boulders餘氣 residual qi10%
Relationships
- 六沖 Clash: 巳亥
- 六合 Harmony: 巳申 → Water
- 三合 Frame: 巳酉丑 → Metal
Hidden-element shares are the usual teaching approximation.
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