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Ji Mao 己卯 Day Pillar

Ji Mao 己卯 is number 16 of the sixty. The Day Master is Ji 己, yin Earth; the branch Mao 卯 is Wood, zodiac Rabbit. Na Yin is Earth of the City Wall.

At a glance

Position in the cycle16 / 60
Day Master (stem)
Day branch
Day Master elementyinEarth
Branch elementWood
ZodiacRabbit
Na YinEarth of the City Wall
Hidden stemsYi 乙
Void branchesShen 申, You 酉

Hidden stems and their Ten Gods

A branch is more than its surface element. Mao 卯 hides Yi 乙; read against the Day Master Ji 己 they give the Ten God relations below. Hidden stems are what element strength is actually judged on — counting only the four visible stems badly understates what the branches carry.

Hidden stemsDay Master elementTen God
Yi 乙WoodSeven Killings

Next Ji Mao 己卯 days

Day pillars run on a fixed 60-day cycle independent of month and year. The dates below are derived straight from the day count, so no calendar reform affects them.

Where Ji Mao 己卯 sits in a chart

The day pillar is the only one read from itself — every Ten God in the year, month and hour pillars is defined relative to the Day Master Ji 己. Two people born in the same year and month with different day stems therefore have completely different charts. In Ji Mao 己卯 the Day Master Ji 己 is yin Earth and sits on Mao 卯, which is Wood; the relation between them is branch controls the Day Master. This seat is classically read as the Day Master's immediate environment.

Related pillars

The other five pillars sharing the Day Master Ji 己, and the other four sharing the branch Mao 卯:

Same Day Master (Ji 己)

Same branch (Mao 卯)

Sources

  1. lunar-javascript (6tail, MIT) — solar-term instants, 干支 pillars, 大運/流年, 胎元/命宮/身宮 and the almanac tables.
  2. Hong Kong Observatory, Date and Time of the 24 Solar Terms — the reference used to check solar-term instants.
  3. Xieji Bianfang Shu and Sanming Tonghui — classical sources for the Wuhu Dun and Wushu Dun stem rules, hidden stems and the Ten Gods.

Algorithms last checked: 2026-07 · Method and accuracy