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Day pillars

The 戊午 Day Pillar

How Saju-Link reads the day pillar 戊午 — what the stems held by the day branch are to the day stem — laid out exactly as its calculation rules have it.

戊午 is day pillar number 55 of the sexagenary cycle

When the stem-branch of the birth day is 戊午, the day stem is 戊 (Earth, Yang) and the day branch is 午 (the Horse). In the sexagenary cycle it is the combination number 55.

Saju-Link calls a person whose day stem is 戊 "Yang Earth (戊)", and the line the result screen shows is: "Open ground and mountains. Hard to shake and easy to lean on, though slow to change a decision once made." This line has nothing to do with the reading below or the scores.

What the stems held by the day branch 午 are to the day stem

The day branch is the spouse position. Read from the day stem 戊, the stems that 午 holds are as follows. The principal stem (丁) is the branch's representative energy.

The hidden stems of the day branch of 戊午
Hidden stemPositionShareTo the day stem 戊
Yang Fire (丙)residual (餘氣)34.3%Unconventional Support (偏印)
Yin Earth (己)middle (中氣)32.3%Rival (劫財)
Yin Fire (丁)principal (本氣)33.3%Nurture (正印)

The spouse position and this day pillar

Traditional myeongri reads the spouse position as Steady Wealth (正財) for men and Authority (正官) for women. With 戊 as the day stem, Steady Wealth is 癸 and Authority is 乙.

For men, the spouse position (Steady Wealth) is 癸. 癸 is not held inside 午.

For women, the spouse position (Authority) is 乙. 乙 is not held inside 午.

The neighbouring day pillars and the characters it is made of

In the sexagenary cycle the previous day pillar is 丁巳 and the next is 己未.

It is made of Yang Earth (戊) and 午 (Horse).