Yi Mao Day Pillar

A vine among vines: companionable and genuinely symbiotic, and at risk of losing its own outline in the tangle.

A broad stream running loud and fast — you can hear where it has decided to go.

In the sixty-pillar cycle each image is shared by exactly two pillars. 乙卯 shares Water of the Wide Stream with 甲寅, though the two differ in polarity, animal and hidden stems.

Yǐ carries the image of a climbing vine. That is this pillar's baseline; the branch it is paired with decides the rest.

Mǎo is Wood, yin in polarity, and carries the Rabbit.

Hidden stems: every branch conceals stems of its own, in descending weight — Yǐ Wood (100%).

stem and branch share an element (Peer)

Stem and branch pull the same way, which concentrates the pillar's force. Strong-minded and hard to shift — including when shifting would help.

Note: this reads the day pillar alone. A full chart has three more pillars plus the luck cycles, and the balance is only settled by all of them together.