Wu Wu Day Pillar 戊午

The Day Pillar is the two characters of the day you were born: a Heavenly Stem on top (your Day Master, the “you” of a Saju chart) and an Earthly Branch below (your inner self and spouse palace). In Wu Wu (戊午), the Day Master is Wu Earth (a large, steady mountain) sitting on the Horse branch, whose element is Fire.

You sit on the fire that gives you life (Direct Resource), strong in passion and love of study. A dependable, fiery leader, followed by help from elders and good fortune in honors.

Wu Earth carries the weight of a big, sturdy mountain. You are steady and not easily shaken, and people feel they can lean on you. Diligent and responsible, you see things through to the end and have a good eye for the big picture. You may be slow to adapt to change, so practice flexibility when it is needed.

What makes Wu Wu different from the other five Wu Earth Day Pillars is the branch it sits on, covered below.

With Wu beneath your Day Master, you are frank in expressing feelings and hot in love. There is the energy of the sun in your spouse seat, so you tend to meet bright, showy partners. The key is to manage the everyday temperature so that a flame that starts hot doesn’t cool quickly.

The energy of care (Direct Resource) sits in your spouse seat, so you tend to meet warm, understanding partners. It is a relationship in which you become a refuge for each other.

Wu Earth loves heavily and reliably like a mountain. Once you decide, you don’t waver and take responsibility like family. You can be clumsy at expression and seem reserved, so remembering anniversaries and saying kind words out loud helps.

Direct Resource here means: Direct Resource (Zheng Yin) stands for scholastic luck, the support of others and a stable base of backing. You enjoy learning and feel a sense of achievement in building knowledge, and a flow of help from parents, teachers and elders appears often. Your careful, thoughtful nature earns trust, but you sometimes need to take bold challenges so that choosing only the safest option doesn’t make you miss chances.

Peak (Di Wang): the height of the energy. Confidence and drive are at their maximum and the leader nature is strong, though too much can become dogmatism.

Hidden inside the Horse branch: Bing (Fire, 10 days), Ji (Earth, 9 days), Ding (Fire, 11 days). These quieter energies show up in private, under stress or later in life.

Areas to look after: spleen, stomach, digestion, lips and skin.

Too much Earth energy makes the body heavy, digestion slow and worries many. Eating less and a light walk after meals to help circulation work well.

Too little Earth energy means a weak stomach and irregular meals. Warm meals at set times are the basis of your condition.

• Six Harmony: the Horse pairs with the Goat. People with a Goat Day Branch often feel an easy pull toward you.
• Three Harmony: the Tiger · Horse · Dog form a Fire team, so those animals tend to bring out your best.
• Clash: the Horse clashes with the Rat. It is not doom, only a spot where friction and change come easily.
• Perfect match on stem and branch: Gui Wei (癸未) combines with Wu Wu on both the stem and the branch.
• Opposite pillar (most friction): Jia Zi (甲子): its stem is Seven Killings to you and its branch clashes with yours.

Day Pillars are one part of compatibility. For a full comparison of two charts, try the compatibility reading.

Your Day Pillar depends on your birth date, not your birth year. Enter your date of birth in the Day Pillar finder or get a complete chart with the free Saju calculator, which also gives your Day Master strength, Useful God and Luck Cycles.