The day pillar for Tuesday, 5 January 2027

Day pillar	甲申 (jia shen)
Heavenly stem	甲 (jia)
Earthly branch	申 (shen)
Day element	Wood 木 (mu)
Polarity	Yang
Solar term	小寒 (xiaohan)
Month pillar	庚子 (geng zi), governed by 大雪 (daxue)

Today's day pillar is 甲申 (jia shen), a yang Wood day in the sixty-day cycle. Today is also the solar term 小寒 (xiaohan), one of the twenty-four stations of the solar year. The month pillar is 庚子 (geng zi), governed by the term 大雪 (daxue).

小寒 (xiaohan), minor cold

小寒 opens the last month of the BaZi year around the fifth of January, and despite the name it often brings the coldest weather of all.

寒 is deep cold, distinct from the milder 冷. As with heat and snow, the calendar splits it into a lesser and a greater term, though in practice the greater cold frequently arrives during the lesser one.

小寒 is sectional and starts the 丑 (chou) month, the ox month. 丑 is an earth branch with three stems hidden in it, 己 (ji), 癸 (gui) and 辛 (xin), frozen ground holding water and metal in storage.

This is the final month pillar of the year. The next sectional term is 立春 (lichun), and both the month and the year pillars change there.