The day pillar for Saturday, 20 March 2027

Day pillar	戊戌 (wu xu)
Heavenly stem	戊 (wu)
Earthly branch	戌 (xu)
Day element	Earth 土 (tu)
Polarity	Yang
Solar term	春分 (chunfen)
Month pillar	癸卯 (gui mao), governed by 惊蛰 (jingzhe)

Today's day pillar is 戊戌 (wu xu), a yang Earth day in the sixty-day cycle. Today is also the solar term 春分 (chunfen), one of the twenty-four stations of the solar year. The month pillar is 癸卯 (gui mao), governed by the term 惊蛰 (jingzhe).

春分 (chunfen), spring equinox

春分 is the day the sun crosses the equator going north and daylight and darkness come out even, around the twentieth of March.

分 means to divide, and the term divides spring in half as well as dividing the day. It is one of the four terms that most calendars in the world mark in some form, along with the two solstices and the autumn equinox.

It is a medial term, so it does not begin a month pillar. It sits in the centre of the 卯 (mao) month, exactly where the season's midpoint should be, which is one of the tidier pieces of design in the twenty-four.

The tradition treats it as a point of balance in the year rather than a threshold, and the daily page will show it as the governing term until 清明 (qingming) arrives.