An earth Day Master born in 戌, the dog month
The month pillar is the strongest single influence on whether a Day Master is supported. 戌 is the last month of autumn; it opens at 寒露 Cold Dew, around 8 October, and runs to about 7 November.
- Day Master phase
- 土 Earth
- Month branch
- 戌 Xū
- Opens at
- 寒露 Cold Dew
- Roughly
- 8 October – 7 November
- Branch phase
- 土 Earth
What the month does to the Day Master
Born in 戌, the last month of autumn, with an earth Day Master. 得令 — the Self holds the mandate. 戌 is the third of your four months and the one with heat banked inside it.
戌 holds 戊 earth, 辛 metal and 丁 fire, and it is the 火庫, the vault of fire. Your phase leads, your output sits behind it, and the element that produces you is stored rather than burning. That last detail is the useful one: a vault holds rather than blocks, and stored fire can be opened by a later branch.
《窮通寶鑑》 reads the ninth month as ground gone hard before the cold arrives properly. The season's shortage is moisture, and for an earth Day Master that shortage is also yours — dry ground is dry ground whether or not it holds the mandate.
The practical reading: water first, wood to open the ground second, and neither more earth nor more fire, both of which the month already provides.
得令 with a reserve, and dry. Whether the stored fire is opened belongs to the decades rather than to this section; what this section establishes is that it is there.
Cast the chart this page describes
The four pillars, the Day Master, the five-phase count, the day’s almanac read against the chart and the true solar time working — about 2,700 words — are free and need no account. The chart is computed in the browser; nothing about the birth is sent anywhere.