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What Is Pomegranate Wood (石榴木) in BaZi?
Pomegranate Wood is the wood-class Nayin (a separate named element classification for a complete pair of chart symbols) assigned to 庚申 and 辛酉. Classical sources note that its stems and branches are metal while its Nayin is wood, then picture red flowers and clustered fruit and distinguish root earth, water, metal, fire, and other woods; the image does not prove fertility, many children, beauty, wealth, productivity, or ordinary wood strength.
What does Pomegranate Wood establish first?
Pomegranate Wood is the Nayin name for a complete 庚申 or 辛酉 pillar, and its Nayin phase is Wood. It may occur in the Year, Month, Day or Hour Pillar (the two-symbol column for the birth hour). The lookup unit is always one stem–branch pair in the same pillar, never a single character or a cross-pillar combination.
This lookup establishes one historical classification. 庚 remains a Metal stem and 申 a Metal branch; 辛 remains a Metal stem and 酉 a Metal branch. Nayin Wood does not overwrite those ordinary Five-Phase facts.
How can you check for Pomegranate Wood?
Read each complete pillar in an already calculated chart. A pillar that is exactly 庚申 or 辛酉 has the Pomegranate Wood Nayin. One matching character, a zodiac animal or a real-world object is insufficient.
| Complete Jiazi | Stem phase | Branch phase | Nayin name | Nayin phase |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 庚申 | Metal | Metal | Pomegranate Wood | Wood |
| 辛酉 | Metal | Metal | Pomegranate Wood | Wood |
Worked example: how should a 庚申 Year Pillar be recorded?
Suppose the Year Pillar (the two-symbol column for the birth year) is 庚申. The table returns Pomegranate Wood. A clear record says: Year 庚申; stem 庚 is Metal, branch 申 is Metal; Nayin is Pomegranate Wood, classed as Wood. This keeps the Nayin field separate from ordinary elemental data.
If 辛 appears only in the Month Pillar (the two-symbol column for the birth month) and 酉 only in the Day Pillar (the two-symbol column for the birth day), they do not form the same-pillar 辛酉 combination and do not create Pomegranate Wood. Complete pairing comes before image interpretation.
Why does the source use the name Pomegranate Wood?
San Ming Tong Hui calls this a transformed wood because both stems and branches are metal while the Nayin is wood. Its red flowers, clustered seeds, and ability to be set in a pot lead the source to favor formed earth as a root, especially named City-Wall and House Earth conditions. Sand Gold, Sea Gold, Sword Edge, Heavenly River, clear spring and stream waters, Great Sea, sun or thunder fire, and other woods are all separated by pair. Some water irrigates while flooding is harmful; some metal supports transformation while another cuts it, so the exact structure matters. Keep the metal-frame and wood-image contrast explicit. Name the root earth and the actual water, metal, or fire pair.
What value does Pomegranate Wood offer a modern reader?
Its practical value is precise lookup: 庚申 and 辛酉 share this Nayin name, which lets you locate the pair’s distinctive source image and conditions. If another pillar enters an older rule, record that full Jiazi, its location and the source before drawing a comparison.
Keep the reading order explicit: verify calendar inputs and the Four Pillars; retain stems, branches and hidden stems; evaluate Month Command and Day-Master structure; only then add Pomegranate Wood as a Nayin layer. One Nayin name does not determine strength, Useful God, personality, work, relationships, wealth, health or event timing.
Continue reading
- Complete table of the thirty Nayin
Return to the sixty-Jiazi sequence and verify neighboring pairs.
- Compare another Wood Nayin: Great Forest Wood
A shared phase does not make two images or conditions interchangeable.
- Wood in ordinary Five-Phase analysis
Separate Nayin classification from actual chart relations.