A fire 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
- 火 Fire
- 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 a fire Day Master. 休 by the table — an earth month, and fire produces earth — but 戌 is the 火庫, the vault of fire, and that is the fact that governs this block.
戌 holds 戊 earth, 辛 metal and 丁 fire. Your own phase is stored inside the branch that is formally draining you. A vault holds rather than blocks, and what is stored in it can be opened by a later branch, which means a fire Self in 戌 has a reserve that most of the losing months do not provide.
《窮通寶鑑》 reads the ninth month as ground gone hard before the cold properly arrives. The season's shortage is moisture; yours, from this month onward, is warmth and fuel. Those do not coincide, and the chart has to be read for both rather than for one.
Practically: wood is the first support, fire alongside you is the second, and the earth of the month is doing the draining regardless.
Whether the vault opens belongs to the decades and the years, not to this section. What this section establishes is that the material 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.