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Wu Wu 戊午 Day Pillar

Wu Wu 戊午 is number 55 of the sixty. The Day Master is Wu 戊, yang Earth; the branch Wu 午 is Fire, zodiac Horse. Na Yin is Fire in the Sky.

At a glance

Position in the cycle55 / 60
Day Master (stem)
Day branch
Day Master elementyangEarth
Branch elementFire
ZodiacHorse
Na YinFire in the Sky
Hidden stemsDing 丁, Ji 己
Void branchesZi 子, Chou 丑

Hidden stems and their Ten Gods

A branch is more than its surface element. Wu 午 hides Ding 丁, Ji 己; read against the Day Master Wu 戊 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
Ding 丁FireDirect Resource
Ji 己EarthRob Wealth

Next Wu Wu 戊午 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 Wu Wu 戊午 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 Wu 戊. Two people born in the same year and month with different day stems therefore have completely different charts. In Wu Wu 戊午 the Day Master Wu 戊 is yang Earth and sits on Wu 午, which is Fire; the relation between them is branch produces 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 Wu 戊, and the other four sharing the branch Wu 午:

Same Day Master (Wu 戊)

Same branch (Wu 午)

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