寒

In 調候, the tempering of climate, 寒 means born in the cold season.

The months 亥子丑 belong here.

Where the 抑扶 method weighs the balance of force, 調候 looks at the cold and warmth of the season.

In a cold season warmth comes before anything else.

By fortune that warmth is within the record.

It is a grain that can warm itself, and need not wait on another's sun.

Yet that warmth is not within the record.

Unable to warm itself, it must seek warm places and warm people from without.

Left long in the cold, this record stiffens.