Notes on time.

Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water — not substances, but five ways energy moves. A plain-language primer.

BaZi divides the day into twelve two-hour watches. The one you arrived in sets your fourth pillar — and often the most personal line of your chart.

丙午 — Fire over Fire, the hottest pairing in the sixty-year cycle. What a double-Fire year asks of each element.

The Greeks kept two words for time. One measures. The other ripens. Our name is a position on which one matters more.