A water 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
- 水 Water
- 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 water Day Master. 相 — the season produces the Self, and 酉 produces it more purely than 申 did.
酉 is a cardinal branch containing only 辛 metal. Nothing dilutes it, so the supply is uninterrupted and entirely clean. 《滴天髓》 gives 「壬水通河，能洩金氣」 — the great water drains the force out of metal — and a water Self in an undiluted metal month is doing exactly that, continuously, without effort.
《窮通寶鑑》 reads the eighth month as metal at its sharpest and turns from here onward to cold as the year's problem. For your phase that produces a specific shape: abundant supply, falling temperature, and no warmth inside the branch at all.
The practical reading: fire carries the weight in this chart. More metal adds supply that is already sufficient, and more water adds volume that is already rising.
Supported by the month and short of heat. Charts like this are commonly read as strong on the count and then behave as though something were missing, and this is generally what it was.
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.