A fire Day Master born in 午, the horse month
The month pillar is the strongest single influence on whether a Day Master is supported. 午 is the second month of summer; it opens at 芒種 Grain in Ear, around 5 June, and runs to about 7 July.
- Day Master phase
- 火 Fire
- Month branch
- 午 Wǔ
- Opens at
- 芒種 Grain in Ear
- Roughly
- 5 June – 7 July
- Branch phase
- 火 Fire
What the month does to the Day Master
Born in 午, the second month of summer, with a fire Day Master. 得令, and at maximum. 午 is midsummer and a pure branch, and there is no stronger seasonal position available to a fire Self anywhere in the year.
午 holds 丁 fire and 己 earth. Your own phase, undiluted, with a little ground to take the residue. Nothing in the branch opposes you and nothing tempers you.
《窮通寶鑑》 is at its most insistent on the fifth month, and the instruction does not vary by Day Master: water, and enough of it. For a fire Self at peak strength that reads as a requirement rather than a rescue — the classics regard a strong fire without water as a chart with no boundary, and they treat the absence as the structural problem rather than as a surplus of strength.
What follows for the reading: support is surplus here and is treated as such. Wood adds fuel to something already at full burn. What carries weight in this chart is water first, then earth as an outlet, and both will read counter-intuitively against the ordinary sense of those elements.
The mandate is fully held. That is a statement about method, not about fortune.
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.