Mao (卯) — Rabbit Branch / Yin Wood

Mao is yin wood, hidden stem 乙 alone — pure soft growing wood. It is the rabbit at sunrise, the equinox month, the cardinal east. Mao symbolizes elegance, refined sensitivity, beauty, and the social grace that flowers when conditions are just right. Mao Day Masters often have artistic taste, gentleness, and an instinct for harmonious relationships.

Mao san-he with 亥 and 未 transforms to wood (亥卯未合化木), and six-unites with 戌 to fire (卯戌合火). It is conflicted by 酉 (卯酉冲), forms the 子卯相刑 (the "punishment of irreverence"), and breaks with 辰 (卯辰相害).