An earth Day Master born in 亥, the pig month
The month pillar is the strongest single influence on whether a Day Master is supported. 亥 is the first month of winter; it opens at 立冬 Start of Winter, around 7 November, and runs to about 7 December.
- Day Master phase
- 土 Earth
- Month branch
- 亥 Hài
- Opens at
- 立冬 Start of Winter
- Roughly
- 7 November – 7 December
- Branch phase
- 水 Water
What the month does to the Day Master
Born in 亥, the first month of winter, with an earth Day Master. 囚 — the Self restrains the season and is confined by the effort. Earth controls water, and in the tenth month there is a great deal of water to control.
亥 holds 壬 water and 甲 wood. The water is what you are containing; the wood is what opens you. Neither supports you, and 亥 is the first month in which both appear together against an earth Self.
《窮通寶鑑》 is direct about winter for every Day Master — the season's shortage is warmth — and for earth the requirement doubles. Cold ground holds nothing and grows nothing, and the classical reading asks for fire before it asks for anything else, then for earth alongside you to give the containment some mass.
What follows: fire is load-bearing here, support is structural rather than optional, and additional water is the one thing this chart has no room for.
囚 is a specific position and worth understanding. You are not being drained and you are not being cut. You are working, continuously, against something that keeps arriving — and the reading of the later sections is shaped by that rather than by any verdict on strength.
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.