A water Day Master born in 申, the monkey month
The month pillar is the strongest single influence on whether a Day Master is supported. 申 is the first month of autumn; it opens at 立秋 Start of Autumn, around 7 August, and runs to about 7 September.
- Day Master phase
- 水 Water
- Month branch
- 申 Shēn
- Opens at
- 立秋 Start of Autumn
- Roughly
- 7 August – 7 September
- Branch phase
- 金 Metal
What the month does to the Day Master
Born in 申, the first month of autumn, with a water Day Master. 相 — the season produces the Self — and 申 does it more thoroughly than the table alone conveys.
申 holds 庚 metal, 壬 水 and 戊 earth. The metal produces you, and your own phase stands inside the branch: 申 is where water begins its twelve-stage cycle, 長生, the point at which a thing has started and is not yet visible. The month that opens autumn is, for your phase, the month everything opens in.
《窮通寶鑑》 reads early autumn as the turn from heat toward cold, and the instruction shifts with it. From the seventh month onward the year's shortage is warmth, and for a water Day Master that means the chart is read for fire — which is also, in this system, what water reaches for rather than what supports it.
The practical reading: you are well supplied and under-heated. Fire carries weight here and additional metal or water does not.
Produced by the month, at the start of your own cycle. A favourable structural position, and the reading starts there rather than ends there.
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.