A water Day Master born in 未, the goat month
The month pillar is the strongest single influence on whether a Day Master is supported. 未 is the last month of summer; it opens at 小暑 Minor Heat, around 7 July, and runs to about 7 August.
- Day Master phase
- 水 Water
- Month branch
- 未 Wèi
- Opens at
- 小暑 Minor Heat
- Roughly
- 7 July – 7 August
- Branch phase
- 土 Earth
What the month does to the Day Master
Born in 未, the last month of summer, with a water Day Master. 死 — earth controls water — and 未 is the hardest of the four earth months for your phase.
未 holds 己 earth, 丁 fire and 乙 wood, and it is the 木庫, the vault of wood. Dry earth leads it, summer fire sits behind, and stored wood waits underneath. Nothing in the branch produces you and nothing stores you. Where 辰 was wet earth containing your own vault, 未 is dry earth containing someone else's.
《窮通寶鑑》 reads the sixth month as the tail of the heat and asks for water. For a water Day Master that request is again a description of what you already are, and the chart turns on whether there is enough of you and enough metal behind you.
The practical reading: metal first, since it is the only thing in this system that makes water; then your own phase. Additional earth deepens the containment and additional fire deepens the heat.
失令 comprehensively. That fixes which levers move the chart and forecasts nothing whatsoever.
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.