A metal Day Master born in 丑, the ox month
The month pillar is the strongest single influence on whether a Day Master is supported. 丑 is the last month of winter; it opens at 小寒 Minor Cold, around 5 January, and runs to about 4 February.
- Day Master phase
- 金 Metal
- Month branch
- 丑 Chǒu
- Opens at
- 小寒 Minor Cold
- Roughly
- 5 January – 4 February
- Branch phase
- 土 Earth
What the month does to the Day Master
Born in 丑, the last month of winter, with a metal Day Master. 相 by the table — an earth month producing metal — and of the four earth months this is the one that produces you best, for a reason worth stating.
丑 holds 己 earth, 癸 水 and 辛 metal, and it is the 金庫, the vault of metal. Earth leads, water sits under it, and your own phase is stored inside. The earth here is 濕土, moist earth, and 「土潤則生」 — moist earth gives metal birth. Where 未 and 戌 were dry and produced you poorly, 丑 is wet and produces you properly.
The offsetting fact is temperature. 《窮通寶鑑》 reads the twelfth month as the bottom of the year and asks for warmth first for every Day Master, and frozen ground produces slowly whatever its moisture.
The practical reading: a measured fire is load-bearing here, earth carries weight once warmed, and additional water deepens a cold the chart already has too much of.
Produced by the month, with a reserve stored in it, and waiting on heat. The count from the previous section matters here, because the month gives material rather than a verdict.
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.