Earthly Branch profile
Yin · Tiger · early-spring Wood
Yin is early-spring Wood and the first branch of the spring sequence, framing emergence as movement that has begun but is not yet mature.
Fixed coordinates
- Primary element
- 木
- Polarity
- Yang
- Seasonal position
- early spring
- Double-hour
- 03:00–05:00
- Solar-month position
- 1
Season and time coordinate
Its 03:00–05:00 double-hour and first solar-month position place it at the opening of the traditional spring cycle after Li Chun.
What the branch stores
Yin stores Jia, Bing, and Wu in canonical order. The mix is a fixed branch fact, not proof that any stored element is strong or currently operative.
What to watch for
Do not convert early-spring imagery into a personality type, career prescription, health claim, or prediction of rapid success.
Hidden Stems structure
Practical reflection
What beginning needs both decisive movement and enough structure to survive its first change of conditions?
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.