The day pillar for Monday, 24 May 2027

Day pillar	癸卯 (gui mao)
Heavenly stem	癸 (gui)
Earthly branch	卯 (mao)
Day element	Water 水 (shui)
Polarity	Yin
Month pillar	乙巳 (yi si), governed by 立夏 (lixia)

Today's day pillar is 癸卯 (gui mao), a yin Water day in the sixty-day cycle. The month pillar is 乙巳 (yi si), governed by the term 立夏 (lixia).

卯 (mao), the fourth earthly branch

卯 is the rabbit branch, mid spring and the early morning, the plainest Wood in the twelve.

卯 is Wood, yin by position, rabbit by animal. Its hours are 05:00 to 07:00 and its month begins at 惊蛰 (jingzhe) in early March, holding the spring equinox in its middle.

Only one stem hides in it, 乙 (yi, yin Wood). Branches with a single hidden stem are the uncomplicated ones: what you see on the outside is what is underneath. 卯, 子 (zi) and 酉 (you) are the three that work this way.

A 卯 day is a rabbit day. It combines with the five yin stems to give 乙卯, 丁卯 (ding mao), 己卯, 辛卯 and 癸卯.