A water Day Master born in 午, the horse month
The month pillar is the strongest single influence on whether a Day Master is supported. 午 is the second month of summer; it opens at 芒種 Grain in Ear, around 5 June, and runs to about 7 July.
- Day Master phase
- 水 Water
- Month branch
- 午 Wǔ
- Opens at
- 芒種 Grain in Ear
- Roughly
- 5 June – 7 July
- Branch phase
- 火 Fire
What the month does to the Day Master
Born in 午, the second month of summer, with a water Day Master. 囚 — confined by restraining the season, and 午 is the sharpest form of it in the year.
午 is a cardinal branch holding 丁 fire and 己 earth. The fire is what you are containing, at its annual peak. The earth is what contains you. Both stems in the branch work against a water Self, and there is nothing inside it that produces you.
《窮通寶鑑》 is at its most emphatic on the fifth month, and its instruction is the same for every Day Master: water, and enough of it. For your phase that reads as a description of the Self rather than as a prescription, which means this chart is read almost entirely through whether metal and water appear anywhere else in it.
The practical reading: metal is structural, your own phase alongside you is structural, and neither fire nor earth helps — the first is what you are holding and the second is what is holding you.
The mandate is lost and the work is constant. The classics attach no verdict to that, and the literature contains a great many capable charts in this exact spot.
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.