A fire Day Master born in 未, the goat month
The month pillar is the strongest single influence on whether a Day Master is supported. 未 is the last month of summer; it opens at 小暑 Minor Heat, around 7 July, and runs to about 7 August.
- Day Master phase
- 火 Fire
- Month branch
- 未 Wèi
- Opens at
- 小暑 Minor Heat
- Roughly
- 7 July – 7 August
- Branch phase
- 土 Earth
What the month does to the Day Master
Born in 未, the last month of summer, with a fire Day Master. 休 — resting, since fire produces earth and 未 is an earth month. But 未 is hot dry earth, not cold, and that changes the reading considerably.
未 holds 己 earth, 丁 fire and 乙 wood, and it is the 木庫, the vault of wood. Your output leads the branch, and behind it sit both fire and stored fuel. Formally you are resting; materially the month is still summer and there is fire inside it.
《窮通寶鑑》 reads the sixth month as the tail of the heat, and the climate instruction has not changed from the two months before it: water. Dry earth makes the case sharper rather than softer, because ground this hard neither holds moisture nor releases it.
The practical position is unusual and worth naming precisely. You are past your season by the table and not yet cool by the weather, which means the count from the previous section carries more weight here than the month does. Charts in 未 are the ones most often mis-scored in both directions.
Neither clearly with the season nor clearly against it. The rest of the chart decides.
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.