A metal Day Master born in 辰, the dragon month
The month pillar is the strongest single influence on whether a Day Master is supported. 辰 is the last month of spring; it opens at 清明 Clear and Bright, around 4 April, and runs to about 5 May.
- Day Master phase
- 金 Metal
- Month branch
- 辰 Chén
- Opens at
- 清明 Clear and Bright
- Roughly
- 4 April – 5 May
- Branch phase
- 土 Earth
What the month does to the Day Master
Born in 辰, the last month of spring, with a metal Day Master. 相 — the season produces the Self. Earth makes metal, and 辰 is the earth month best suited to doing it.
辰 holds 戊 earth, 乙 wood and 癸 水, and it is the 水庫, the vault of water. The earth produces you, the wood is your work, and the stored water is your output. The reason 辰 is the strongest of the four earth months for your phase is moisture: 《滴天髓》 puts it as 「土潤則生，土乾則脆」 — moist earth gives metal birth, dry earth makes it brittle. 辰 is the moist one.
《窮通寶鑑》 reads the third month as the hinge into summer and asks for warmth to work the ground. For a metal Day Master that is a measured requirement rather than an open one, since fire in quantity is what controls you.
The practical reading: earth carries weight, water is a usable outlet, and fire is wanted in the amount that sharpens rather than the amount that melts.
Produced by the month, in the branch that produces best. That is a genuinely favourable structural position and it is where the reading begins.
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.