A metal 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
- 金 Metal
- 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 metal Day Master. 相 by the table — earth produces metal — and as in 未 the qualification matters more than the verdict.
戌 holds 戊 earth, 辛 metal and 丁 fire, and it is the 火庫, the vault of fire. Earth leads and your own phase sits inside it, so the branch is materially good for you. The qualification is dryness again: 戌 is 燥土, and dry earth produces metal poorly. The banked fire is the reason it is dry.
《窮通寶鑑》 reads the ninth month as hard ground before the cold, and the season's shortage is moisture. For a metal Day Master that coincides with your own requirement, which makes the governing element unusually easy to name here.
The practical reading: water first, both to moisten the ground and to give you an outlet. Earth helps once there is water in it. The fire stored in the branch is enough on its own and does not want supplementing.
Produced by the month with a condition attached. Whether the stored fire opens belongs to the decades; what this section fixes is that the ground is dry and that water is what the chart turns on.
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.