A wood Day Master born in 丑, the ox month
The month pillar is the strongest single influence on whether a Day Master is supported. 丑 is the last month of winter; it opens at 小寒 Minor Cold, around 5 January, and runs to about 4 February.
- Day Master phase
- 木 Wood
- Month branch
- 丑 Chǒu
- Opens at
- 小寒 Minor Cold
- Roughly
- 5 January – 4 February
- Branch phase
- 土 Earth
What the month does to the Day Master
Born in 丑, the last month of winter, with a wood Day Master. Formally 囚, the Self confined by an earth month — and 丑 is the coldest branch in the set, which matters more here than the formal verdict does.
丑 holds 己 earth, 癸 water and 辛 metal, and it is the 金庫, the vault of metal. Frozen wet ground with metal banked inside it. The water in the branch would feed you if it were moving; at this point in the year it is not.
《窮通寶鑑》 treats the twelfth month as the extreme of the climate problem, and its answer does not vary by Day Master: warmth, before anything else. A wood Self in 丑 has the same shortage the whole month has. That coincidence is useful, because it means the governing element is unusually easy to identify here.
What follows: fire is load-bearing in this chart in a way it is not in most. Additional water deepens the cold rather than helping, and additional earth hardens ground that is already unworkable.
The month does not support you and it does not attack you either. It suspends you, and the reading turns on whether anything in the chart supplies heat.
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.