The day pillar for Wednesday, 7 July 2027

Day pillar	丁亥 (ding hai)
Heavenly stem	丁 (ding)
Earthly branch	亥 (hai)
Day element	Fire 火 (huo)
Polarity	Yin
Solar term	小暑 (xiaoshu)
Month pillar	丁未 (ding wei), governed by 小暑 (xiaoshu)

Today's day pillar is 丁亥 (ding hai), a yin Fire day in the sixty-day cycle. Today is also the solar term 小暑 (xiaoshu), one of the twenty-four stations of the solar year. The month pillar is 丁未 (ding wei), governed by the term 小暑 (xiaoshu).

小暑 (xiaoshu), minor heat

小暑 is the beginning of the year's serious heat, around the seventh of July, with the greater heat still to come.

暑 is the specific word for oppressive summer heat rather than warmth in general. 小暑 and 大暑 (dashu) split that condition into two stages a fortnight apart.

小暑 is sectional and opens the 未 (wei) month, the goat month, the last month of summer. Its branch is one of the four earth branches, and the tradition reads 未 as dry earth holding summer's fire in storage.

When the page names 小暑 as the governing term, the month pillar above it has just changed, and it will hold until 立秋 (liqiu) in August.