The day pillar for Monday, 28 June 2027

Day pillar	戊寅 (wu yin)
Heavenly stem	戊 (wu)
Earthly branch	寅 (yin)
Day element	Earth 土 (tu)
Polarity	Yang
Month pillar	丙午 (bing wu), governed by 芒种 (mangzhong)

Today's day pillar is 戊寅 (wu yin), a yang Earth day in the sixty-day cycle. The month pillar is 丙午 (bing wu), governed by the term 芒种 (mangzhong).

Earth 土 (tu)

Earth is the element of the middle, the phase that holds the other four apart and lets them change into one another.

土 is the odd one out among the five. The other elements each own a season, while Earth owns the seams between them: the last stretch of every season belongs to an earth branch, 辰 (chen), 未 (wei), 戌 (xu) and 丑 (chou). Its stems are 戊 (wu), the mountain, and 己 (ji), the field.

Earth is generated by Fire and generates Metal, since ore is found in ground. It controls Water, which is the image of a dam or a riverbank. Because it is the medium the other elements pass through, it is often described as stabilising rather than as doing anything of its own.

An Earth day is one whose stem is 戊 or 己. Readers frequently call those days steady or slow, and the tradition takes that as a pace, not as a day where nothing counts.