Heavenly Stem Earthly Branch
No...Heavenly Stem Earthly Branch is not the sequel to Ang Lee's highly acclaimed movie, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. The Heavenly Stem and the Earthly Branch are actually the basic building blocks of the Chinese Calendar.
There are 10 Stems and 12 Branches. Combined together (1 Stem with 1 Branch), they form 60 permutations.
To find out more about the 10 Heavenly Stems and 12 Earthly Branches, you may check out this article on the Chinese Calendar System.
You may wonder why you should even bother to care about all these stems and branches.
There's a very good reason: Your birth year, month, day and time, when converted into a set of 4 permutations (of 1 Stem and 1 Branch), can be used to foretell your destiny.
Posted by at July 21, 2005 02:16 AM
