Earthly Branch profile
Xu · Dog · late-autumn Earth
Xu is late-autumn Earth, a transition branch that consolidates the autumn sequence before winter storage begins.
Fixed coordinates
- Primary element
- 土
- Polarity
- Yang
- Seasonal position
- late autumn
- Double-hour
- 19:00–21:00
- Solar-month position
- 9
Season and time coordinate
Its 19:00–21:00 double-hour and ninth solar-month position place it at a threshold of closure, transfer, and preparation.
What the branch stores
Xu stores Wu, Xin, and Ding in canonical order. The table does not decide dryness, storage activation, rooting, or chart structure.
What to watch for
Do not read Xu as automatic loyalty, protection, legal trouble, property, or a decisive clash result from one symbol.
Hidden Stems structure
Practical reflection
What needs a clear closing boundary so that the next cycle receives an orderly handover?
Reading method and boundary
This page explains the traditional correspondence between a branch and its Hidden Stems. It adds no weighting, strength, or activation judgment and infers no event from one branch.