Earthly Branch profile
You · Rooster · mid-autumn Metal
You is mid-autumn Metal, the central autumn station associated with definition, completion, and discernment in the seasonal sequence.
Fixed coordinates
- Primary element
- 金
- Polarity
- Yin
- Seasonal position
- mid-autumn
- Double-hour
- 17:00–19:00
- Solar-month position
- 8
Season and time coordinate
Its 17:00–19:00 double-hour and eighth solar-month position locate it at the middle of traditional autumn.
What the branch stores
You stores Xin, Yin Metal, as its single canonical Hidden Stem. A single-stem branch is not automatically stronger, cleaner, or more favourable.
What to watch for
Do not infer perfectionism, beauty, relationships, status, or a guaranteed outcome from You alone.
Hidden Stems structure
Practical reflection
What deserves precise completion, and what can remain imperfect without losing its essential value?
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.