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Seasonal stage
Weathering — The Turning Leaf
The first leaves turn as early frost tests the canopy. As a stage in your chart or in the turning year, it tends towards contraction: a good window for stress-testing, editing and letting weak parts go.
Classical equivalent · Earthly Branch (地支)
申 Shen (Monkey) — Aug – early Sep
Function in the cycle: Contraction
Strengths
- Tests what is real
- Sheds the unnecessary
- Toughens
Blind spots
- Harsh self-judgement
- Sees loss before lesson
- Fights the season
The classic side · 地支 Earthly Branch
申 Shen · The Monkey
申 begins autumn (立秋): raw iron (庚) in the cooling rock, and the great rivers (壬) are born here (Water’s 長生). Quick wit, invention, adaptability and a gift for fixing what others think is broken.
The spirit animal: A silver-white monkey of light on iron cliffs above a rushing river.
- Element
- Yang Metal — Developing Metal energy
- Season
- Early autumn · 7th month · 立秋 to 白露 (about 8 Aug – 7 Sep)
- Hours
- 15:00 – 17:00
- Direction
- West-southwest
- Family
- 四生 birth · 驛馬 travelling horse
藏干 Hidden elements
- Yang Metal — raw iron and blades本氣 main qi60%
- 壬 RenYang Water — ocean and great rivers中氣 middle qi30%
- 戊 WuYang Earth — mountains and boulders餘氣 residual qi10%
Relationships
- 六沖 Clash: 申寅
- 六合 Harmony: 申巳 → Water
- 三合 Frame: 申子辰 → Water
Hidden-element shares are the usual teaching approximation.
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