The day pillar for Thursday, 8 October 2026

Day pillar	乙卯 (yi mao)
Heavenly stem	乙 (yi)
Earthly branch	卯 (mao)
Day element	Wood 木 (mu)
Polarity	Yin
Solar term	寒露 (hanlu)
Month pillar	戊戌 (wu xu), governed by 寒露 (hanlu)

Today's day pillar is 乙卯 (yi mao), a yin Wood day in the sixty-day cycle. Today is also the solar term 寒露 (hanlu), one of the twenty-four stations of the solar year. The month pillar is 戊戌 (wu xu), governed by the term 寒露 (hanlu).

寒露 (hanlu), cold dew

寒露 is the dew of 白露 (bailu) gone cold, the last term before frost, around the eighth of October.

The name is the same image moved down a season: dew that is no longer merely visible but cold to touch. The set of names is unusually attentive to water, which is a good clue about what mattered to the people who fixed them.

寒露 is sectional and opens the 戌 (xu) month, the dog month. 戌 is an earth branch and the last month of autumn, holding stored metal and a last ember of fire in its hidden stems.

It will govern the daily page for about a month, giving way at 立冬 (lidong) when winter is set up.