Earthly Branch profile
Wei · Goat · late-summer Earth
Wei is late-summer Earth, a transition branch that gathers the summer sequence before autumn definition begins.
Fixed coordinates
- Primary element
- 土
- Polarity
- Yin
- Seasonal position
- late summer
- Double-hour
- 13:00–15:00
- Solar-month position
- 6
Season and time coordinate
Its 13:00–15:00 double-hour and sixth solar-month position mark a stage of carrying, ripening, and preparing for change.
What the branch stores
Wei stores Ji, Ding, and Yi in canonical order. The stored list is exact, while any claim about relative force belongs to a separate assessment layer.
What to watch for
Do not treat Wei as automatic care, family fortune, property, storage, or a favourable element from the branch name alone.
Hidden Stems structure
Practical reflection
What is ready to mature, and what support should be reduced so the next phase can take shape?
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.