Earthly Branch profile
Si · Snake · early-summer Fire
Si is early-summer Fire, the first branch of the summer sequence as visibility and outward activity begin to intensify.
Fixed coordinates
- Primary element
- 火
- Polarity
- Yin
- Seasonal position
- early summer
- Double-hour
- 09:00–11:00
- Solar-month position
- 4
Season and time coordinate
Its 09:00–11:00 double-hour and fourth solar-month position place it after the spring transition and before the summer peak.
What the branch stores
Si stores Bing, Geng, and Wu in canonical order. The coexistence of three stems is a fixed reference, not a ready-made conflict or activation reading.
What to watch for
Do not infer secrecy, strategy, heat, illness, or sudden events from Si alone. This page provides fixed reference facts and does not support those chart-specific inferences.
Hidden Stems structure
Practical reflection
What is becoming more visible, and which limit will keep that visibility connected to substance?
Reading method and boundary
When this page is opened from a chart, the Hidden Stems label comes from the deterministic engine. Opened on its own, this profile only mirrors the same fixed table and performs no calculation. It adds no weighting, strength, or activation judgment and infers no event from one branch.