The Four Pillars

丁︎Yin Fire — Dīng

Heavenly Stem · Yin Fire · the lamp

The fourth Heavenly Stem — Yin Fire, the candle or lamp, a steadier flame that illuminates with care.

Dīng reads as focused, considered warmth: the light that reveals detail and guides one person at a time rather than flooding the whole field. Its strength is refinement and devotion; its care is to tend the flame so it neither gutters out nor smolders into resentment.