The day pillar for Friday, 23 October 2026

Day pillar	庚午 (geng wu)
Heavenly stem	庚 (geng)
Earthly branch	午 (wu)
Day element	Metal 金 (jin)
Polarity	Yang
Solar term	霜降 (shuangjiang)
Month pillar	戊戌 (wu xu), governed by 寒露 (hanlu)

Today's day pillar is 庚午 (geng wu), a yang Metal day in the sixty-day cycle. Today is also the solar term 霜降 (shuangjiang), 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).

霜降 (shuangjiang), frost descends

霜降 is the term where dew turns to frost and the growing season is over, around the twenty-third of October.

降 means to come down, so the name has frost arriving rather than forming, which is how it looks from the ground. It is the last term of autumn.

It is a medial term inside the 戌 (xu) month, so no pillar changes with it. Winter starts a fortnight later at 立冬 (lidong), and the month pillar changes then.

The tradition reads this stretch as the year putting things away rather than as loss, which is the same distinction it makes everywhere between a season's tempo and a judgment about it.