A metal Day Master born in 酉, the rooster month
The month pillar is the strongest single influence on whether a Day Master is supported. 酉 is the second month of autumn; it opens at 白露 White Dew, around 7 September, and runs to about 8 October.
- Day Master phase
- 金 Metal
- Month branch
- 酉 Yǒu
- Opens at
- 白露 White Dew
- Roughly
- 7 September – 8 October
- Branch phase
- 金 Metal
What the month does to the Day Master
Born in 酉, the second month of autumn, with a metal Day Master. 得令, at maximum. 酉 is mid-autumn, a cardinal branch, and there is no stronger seasonal position for metal anywhere in the year.
酉 contains only 辛 metal. Nothing dilutes it, nothing opposes it, and nothing in the branch offers an outlet either. A metal Self born here is at full strength and entirely unworked.
That is precisely the classical concern. 《窮通寶鑑》 reads the eighth month as metal at its sharpest, and the eighth-month instruction across the texts is consistent: water to wash it and fire to shape it. Metal in surplus with neither is described as a blade that has never been drawn.
What follows: support is surplus here and treated as such. Earth adds to something already complete. What this chart is read for is a check and an outlet, and both will read counter-intuitively against the ordinary sense of those elements.
The mandate is held completely. That statement is about method and about which sections carry weight, and the classics attach nothing else to it.
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.