A metal 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
- 金 Metal
- 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 metal Day Master. 囚 — confined by restraining the season, and 卯 introduces a complication no other spring branch has.
卯 is a cardinal branch holding only 乙 wood. In the stem relations 乙 and 庚 bind — 「能贏甲兄，輸於乙妹」 in 《滴天髓》's phrasing: metal defeats elder brother 甲 and loses to younger sister 乙. A metal Self facing an undiluted 乙 month is facing the one form of wood the classics say it does not simply cut.
《窮通寶鑑》 reads mid-spring as damp and rising, and for metal the instruction is earth to produce you and fire in measured quantity to give you an edge rather than to melt you.
What follows: support is structural here. Additional wood is not more material to work but more of what the month already provides in excess, and additional water carries your force away into a season that is already growing.
The position is loss of the mandate with an unusual twist attached. This section names the twist and hands the consequences to the sections that read relationships, where the binding of 乙 and 庚 is treated properly.
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.