Earthly Branch profile
Wu · Horse · mid-summer Fire
Wu is mid-summer Fire, the central summer station where the seasonal sequence reaches its most outward and visible phase.
Fixed coordinates
- Primary element
- 火
- Polarity
- Yang
- Seasonal position
- mid-summer
- Double-hour
- 11:00–13:00
- Solar-month position
- 5
Season and time coordinate
Its 11:00–13:00 double-hour and fifth solar-month position frame the traditional midday and mid-summer correspondence.
What the branch stores
Wu stores Ding and Ji in canonical order. This pair is shown without a percentage, strength rank, or claim that either stem is active in a specific chart.
What to watch for
Do not equate Wu with charisma, fame, restlessness, auspiciousness, or a predictable life event without complete chart evidence.
Hidden Stems structure
Practical reflection
Where does strong outward momentum need a centre that can sustain it after attention moves elsewhere?
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.