Earthly Branch profile
Hai · Pig · early-winter Water
Hai is early-winter Water, the first branch of the winter sequence as outward activity yields to storage and latent renewal.
Fixed coordinates
- Primary element
- 水
- Polarity
- Yin
- Seasonal position
- early winter
- Double-hour
- 21:00–23:00
- Solar-month position
- 10
Season and time coordinate
Its 21:00–23:00 double-hour and tenth solar-month position place it after autumn consolidation and before winter's centre.
What the branch stores
Hai stores Ren and Jia in canonical order. Their coexistence is fixed reference data, not proof of support, transformation, or future movement.
What to watch for
Do not infer wisdom, travel, secrecy, compatibility, or a favourable Water condition from Hai alone.
Hidden Stems structure
Practical reflection
What should be stored now so that a later beginning has real material to draw from?
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.