A fire 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
- 火 Fire
- 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 a fire Day Master. 死 by the seasonal table — the season controls the Self — and this is the hardest structural position available to fire.
亥 holds 壬 water and 甲 wood. Water puts fire out, and in the tenth month it is arriving rather than receding. But the 甲 inside the branch is not a small detail: it is your fuel, and it is the reason the classics do not read 亥 as hopeless for a fire Self the way they read some months for other phases.
《窮通寶鑑》 is direct about winter across every Day Master — warmth is what the season lacks — and for a fire Day Master the season's need and the Self's need are the same thing. That is a rare and genuinely useful alignment, because it means the governing element is unambiguous.
What follows: wood is load-bearing here, fire alongside you is load-bearing, and additional water is the one thing this chart cannot absorb.
失令, and comprehensively. The classics attach no verdict to that and neither does this report; it establishes which supports carry weight and hands the rest to the sections that follow.
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.