A fire Day Master born in 卯, the rabbit month
The month pillar is the strongest single influence on whether a Day Master is supported. 卯 is the second month of spring; it opens at 驚蟄 Insects Awaken, around 5 March, and runs to about 4 April.
- Day Master phase
- 火 Fire
- Month branch
- 卯 Mǎo
- Opens at
- 驚蟄 Insects Awaken
- Roughly
- 5 March – 4 April
- Branch phase
- 木 Wood
What the month does to the Day Master
Born in 卯, the second month of spring, with a fire Day Master. 相 — the season produces the Self. But 卯 supports you differently from 寅, and the difference is the whole content of this block.
卯 is a pure branch holding only 乙 wood. Mid-spring wood is green wood — living, damp, full of sap. The classical objection to it is practical and physical: 濕木 does not catch. A fire Self supplied only by 乙 is supplied with fuel that resists being fuel, and 《窮通寶鑑》 raises this for the second month specifically rather than in general.
What the chart wants, then, is not more wood. It is 甲 rather than 乙 where possible, and failing that, enough fire already burning to dry what it is given.
The structural position is favourable and slower than it looks. You are produced by the month, with abundant supply, and the supply needs work before it becomes usable. Charts like this are frequently read as strong from the count and then behave as though something were missing, and this is usually what it was.
得令 in the loose sense, supported by the season, and dependent on the quality of the support rather than its quantity.
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.