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type: Palm Sutra Concept
title: "年柱 (Year Pillar)"
description: "Placed on the branch of the birth year, the Year pillar is the root of the whole reading — ancestral fortune, the family one is born into and the innate disposition or \"past-life\" foundation one carries."
resource: https://localpapa.com/tools/yizhang.html
category: "Damo Yi Zhang Jing · Pillar"
tags: [yizhang, palm-sutra, pillar, foundation, ancestry, innate-nature]
timestamp: 2026-06-21T00:00:00Z
---

# 年柱 (Year Pillar)

- **中文 / Chinese:** 年柱
- **Governs 主管:** foundation, ancestry & innate nature
- **Keywords:** foundation, ancestry, innate-nature

Placed on the branch of the birth year, the Year pillar is the root of the whole reading — ancestral fortune, the family one is born into and the innate disposition or "past-life" foundation one carries. It is read first, as the ground on which the other three pillars stand.

The palm star this pillar falls on (see <https://localpapa.com/tools/yizhang.html>) describes how this area of life unfolds.

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