Earthly Branch profile
Mao · Rabbit · mid-spring Wood
Mao is mid-spring Wood, the branch where the spring sequence is fully established rather than only beginning to emerge.
Fixed coordinates
- Primary element
- 木
- Polarity
- Yin
- Seasonal position
- mid-spring
- Double-hour
- 05:00–07:00
- Solar-month position
- 2
Season and time coordinate
Its 05:00–07:00 double-hour and second solar-month position place it in the central phase of traditional spring.
What the branch stores
Mao stores Yi, Yin Wood, as its single canonical Hidden Stem. Purity of the list does not by itself establish strength, quality, or outcome.
What to watch for
Do not reduce Mao to refinement, romance, compatibility, or a lucky-unlucky label without reading its pillar and full chart context.
Hidden Stems structure
Practical reflection
Which form of growth now needs careful cultivation rather than more expansion?
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.