Complete Compendium of Five-Star and Three-Fate Astrology, Volume 1 (1657) - Page 19

Goat

original: 未 (Wei). The eighth Earthly Branch, associated with the end of summer and the transition of seasons.

Four Prosperities	Four Repositories	Four Exhaustions		Self-Birth of the Five Elements			Fixed Rules for Self-Prosperity
Fire peaks in the Horse original: 午 (Wu)	Fire is stored in the Dog original: 戌 (Xu)	Fire is exhausted in the Pig original: 亥 (Hai)	Self-Birth Cases where a specific year-pillar generates its own element.	Xin-Si Metal	Jia-Shen Water	Ji-Hai Wood	Bing-Yin Fire	Wu-Shen Earth	Self-Failure	Jia-Wu Metal
Metal peaks in the Rooster original: 酉 (You)	Metal is stored in the Ox original: 丑 (Chou)	Metal is exhausted in the Tiger original: 寅 (Yin)	Self-Prosperous	Gui-You Metal	Bing-Zi Water	Xin-Mao Wood	Wu-Wu Fire	Geng-Zi Earth	Self-Sickness	Xin-Hai Metal
Water & Earth peak in the Rat original: 子 (Zi)	Water & Earth are stored in the Dragon original: 辰 (Chen)	Water & Earth are exhausted in the Snake original: 巳 (Si)	Self-Official Career	Ren-Shen Metal	Gui-Hai Water	Geng-Yin Wood	Yi-Si Fire	Ding-Hai Earth	Self-Death	Jia-Zi Metal
Wood peaks in the Rabbit original: 卯 (Mao)	Wood is stored in the Goat? original: 未 (Wei)	Wood is exhausted in the Monkey original: 申 (Shen)	Self-Repository	Yi-Chou Metal	Ren-Chen Water	Gui-Wei Wood	Jia-Xu Fire	Bing-Chen Earth	Self-Exhaustion	Ren-Yin Metal

The table above charts the "Twelve Stages of Life" (Shi'er Zhangsheng) for the Five Elements. Specifically, it lists the peaks (Prosperity), the points of storage or burial (Repository), and the points of total energetic depletion (Exhaustion). The right-hand side of the table identifies specific "Melodic Element" (Nayin) combinations—the 60-year cycle of Stem-Branch pillars—and classifies them by their internal energetic health, such as "Self-Birth" or "Self-Death."

Four Prosperities (Si Wang): The points in the cycle where an element's energy is at its absolute maximum.
Four Repositories (Si Ku): Also known as "Graves," these are the branches where an element's energy is contained or buried, representing potential or hidden strength.
Four Exhaustions (Si Jue): The stage where the element's energy has completely vanished before beginning a new cycle.
Melodic Elements (Nayin): A complex system where each of the 60 pairs of Stems and Branches (like Xin-Si or Jia-Shen) is assigned one of the Five Elements, regardless of the individual characters' basic properties.