An earth Day Master born in 巳, the snake month
The month pillar is the strongest single influence on whether a Day Master is supported. 巳 is the first month of summer; it opens at 立夏 Start of Summer, around 5 May, and runs to about 5 June.
- Day Master phase
- 土 Earth
- Month branch
- 巳 Sì
- Opens at
- 立夏 Start of Summer
- Roughly
- 5 May – 5 June
- Branch phase
- 火 Fire
What the month does to the Day Master
Born in 巳, the first month of summer, with an earth Day Master. 相 — the season produces the Self. Fire makes earth, and in the fourth month the fire has arrived without yet becoming excessive.
巳 holds 丙 fire, 庚 metal and 戊 earth. The fire feeds you, your own phase stands inside the branch, and the metal is your output. It is one of the most complete branches an earth Self can be born into, and the seasonal verdict understates it.
《窮通寶鑑》 turns from the fourth month onward to the year's real problem, which is heat. For an earth Day Master that carries a particular warning: fire produces earth, and too much of it bakes what it was producing. The classics distinguish moist ground that grows things from fired ground that does not, and the difference is water.
So the reading is unusual in shape. You are well supplied by the month and the thing you most want is not more supply — it is moisture, and after that an outlet.
Produced by the season, structurally comfortable, and read for what cools rather than for what feeds. That combination is where charts like this most often get misjudged.
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.