The day pillar for Friday, 6 November 2026
| Day pillar | 甲申 (jia shen) |
|---|---|
| Heavenly stem | 甲 (jia) |
| Earthly branch | 申 (shen) |
| Day element | Wood 木 (mu) |
| Polarity | Yang |
| Month pillar | 戊戌 (wu xu), governed by 寒露 (hanlu) |
Today's day pillar is 甲申 (jia shen), a yang Wood day in the sixty-day cycle. The month pillar is 戊戌 (wu xu), governed by the term 寒露 (hanlu).
申 (shen), the ninth earthly branch
申 is the monkey branch, the start of autumn and the mid afternoon, where metal first shows up in the year.
申 is Metal, yang by position, monkey by animal. Its hours are 15:00 to 17:00 and its month begins at 立秋 (liqiu) in early August, which is the calendar declaring autumn while the weather is still hot.
Its hidden stems are 庚 (geng, yang Metal), 壬 (ren, yang Water) and 戊 (wu, yang Earth). Metal generating water is the standard cycle at work: autumn is where the year starts making the winter it will need.
On a 申 day the branch is Metal, and if the stem above it is 庚 or 壬 you get 庚申 or 壬申 (ren shen), two of the more unmixed pillars in the sixty.