BaZi: NaYin 松柏木 Wood of pine and cypress - Year Pillar Geng Yin or Xin Mao

庚寅, 辛卯 松柏木
Geng Yin, Xin Mao - Wood of pine and cypress

松柏木者，泼雪凑霜，参天覆地，风撼笙篁之奏，雨余旌旆之张。
(Some poetic stuff to describe pine wood)

此木藏居金下，位列正东，乃为极旺，最喜山为根基，水为滋润。
This wood lives hidden underneath Metal, but it's located at the true east, and thus it is extremely prosperous, it likes having mountains as the foundation of its root and be nourished by water.

天河雨露之水可以滋润，涧下丁丑属山，可为根基，丙子不如大溪有乙卯为雷，可以发荣，却嫌风霹，有损折之凶；
Heavenly river water as rain and dews can nourish this wood, nourishing under water Ding Chou belongs to mountain which can be used as the foundation, Bing Zi is not as good as Great River with Yi Mao as thunder, thus is can be glorious, but it does not like the wind impact, for fear of being broken (by the wind)

大海水有山则吉，癸亥清静无山，亦吉。
Great Ocean Water with mountain is auspicious, Gui Hai when it is clean and still is also auspicious without mountain.

若柱有平地，得屋土，则为已成栋梁，无用山水。无此二件，乃山间之茂木也，须要山水。
If the pillars has Flat Land (Wood) and getting House Earth has already become ridge pole, does not need to use mountain and water. Otherwise the wood is wild wood in the forest, needs water and mountain.

命中有火，最忌炉中，就位相生，再加风木，灰飞烟灭，五行无水，主夭折；
In the chart if there's fire, Inside furnace is most inauspicious,  when it's at a place that it can be engendered, together with wind an wood, ashes fly and smoke extinguished, if water is absent, it denotes dying young.

山头、山下、太阳、覆灯皆不可犯；
Fire above mountain, Fire below mountain, Fire of the Sun or Fire of the lamp - these must not be offended.

寅人尤忌戊午、丙寅，以木不南奔，寅午三合火局故也，辛卯无害；
Yin person especially fears Xu and Wu, Bing Yin wood does not want to rush to the south, because Yin and Wu forms a fire frame, whereas for Xin Mao it's okay.

Trey: When Bing Yin pine wood sees Wu and Xu, fire becomes overly strong. Pine Wood does not live well in hot temperature.

霹火虽可滋生，运加凡火，主凶。
Lightning fire can nourish the wood but if Fire comes in the Luck Pillar, it becomes inauspicious.

土见路旁，似无足贵，若无死木，其福还真；
As for earth, seeing Roadside Earth, it seems to be insufficient to be noble, even there is no dead wood, it's blessing can still be real;

驿土无山贫夭，更加海水，尤凶。
Post Earth without mountain denotes poverty or dying young, with Ocean Water, it's even more inauspicious.

金逢乙丑，为印为山；
Metal seeing Yi Chou, it functions as Seal or as mountain

泊金就位自旺，主吉；
Foil Metal, when it's in the correct position, it prosper itself, denotes auspiciousness.

剑锋能削能斫，更得壁土相成，松柏相资，主贵。
Sword Metal can be used to scrap and carve, when it get Wall Earth to complement, Pine Wood to mutually supporting, it denotes nobility.

大林有风，杨柳会火，二木最忌；

Great Forest wood has wind, Willow will meet fire, so these 2 woods are most inauspicious.

桑柘癸丑为山，可以相助；
Mulberry wood Gui Chou can function as mountain, thus it can be supportive.

石榴是辛酉金反化死木，有造化，却吉。
Pomegranate wood is Xin You metal, it instead transform dead wood, if it's a good structure, it's auspicious.

妙选有苍松冬秀格，是以此木生人月日时属三冬为贵；
In the book 'Miao Xuan' there's a structure called 'green pine is elegant in winter', Pine wood with its month, day and hour belong to 3 winters is regarded as noble.

有日合辛卯、日值庚寅二格，虽取戊午已未，生居夏秋，然专论此木为贵。
also, there are 2 more structures, 'day combining with Xin Mao', and  'day towards Geng Yin', even it takes Wu Wu and Ji Wei pillars, having born in Summer and Autumn will transform the wood to be noble.

What a cryptic chapter...