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Pure and Stern Tribunal: Four Yi Stems with the Metal Trine
Pure and Stern Tribunal gives four Yi stems with the Si/You/Chou Metal trine: Yi-Chou, Yi-You, Yi-Si, Yi-You. Its official-tribunal image draws on traditional Metal symbolism. Yi remains a Wood stem; neither the branch trine nor the text’s True Metal wording changes all four Yi stems into Metal.
What occupies each position in the source chart?
Year/Month and Day/Hour pairings are compatible. All three Metal-trine branches are present, with You repeated. A complete branch trine is different from all-Metal Nayin (a separate named element classification for a complete pair of chart symbols).
| Position | Pillar | Stem element | Nayin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Yi-Chou (乙丑) | Wood | Sea Metal |
| Month | Yi-You (乙酉) | Wood | Spring Water |
| Day | Yi-Si (乙巳) | Wood | Lamp Fire |
| Hour | Yi-You (乙酉) | Wood | Spring Water |
How should the text’s Yi True Metal wording be handled?
It belongs to this historical account and should not be substituted for the ordinary stem-element table. An Yi/Geng transformation explanation would require its own combination and transformation conditions; no Geng stem is exposed in this example.
Si does contain hidden Geng, but that does not create four exposed Yi/Geng combinations. Keep the source wording distinct from actual stems instead of relabeling Yi Wood as Metal.
Does the example already satisfy the fetal/month Horse condition?
Both Chou Year and Si Day belong to the Si/You/Chou group and give Horse at Hai. The actual Month branch (the lower symbol in the birth-month column) is You, not Hai.
The common fetal derivation from Yi-You Month gives Bing-Zi, whose branch is also not Hai. No different fetal pillar is explicitly supplied. The separate fetal/month Horse clause therefore should not be claimed as already fulfilled.
Does this account establish profession, character or fairness?
No. Censorial and tribunal offices are historical categories, not a modern career test. Metal’s judicial symbolism does not establish harshness, fairness or fitness for legal work.
The useful result is a clear account of the four Yi stems, Metal-trine branches, differing Nayin and separate Horse evidence. The name should aid understanding rather than replace it.
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Compare a trine with additional requirements.
- Officer and actual authority relations
Return the placement to the month and whole chart.