The day pillar for Saturday, 7 August 2027
| Day pillar | 戊午 (wu wu) |
|---|---|
| Heavenly stem | 戊 (wu) |
| Earthly branch | 午 (wu) |
| Day element | Earth 土 (tu) |
| Polarity | Yang |
| Solar term | 立秋 (liqiu) |
| Month pillar | 丁未 (ding wei), governed by 小暑 (xiaoshu) |
Today's day pillar is 戊午 (wu wu), a yang Earth day in the sixty-day cycle. Today is also the solar term 立秋 (liqiu), 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).
立秋 (liqiu), autumn begins
立秋 sets up autumn around the seventh of August, at the point in the year when almost nobody outside would call it autumn.
It is the third of the four season-opening 立 terms. The old phrase for the days after it is 秋老虎, the autumn tiger, meaning the heat that keeps its teeth for several weeks past the official change of season.
立秋 is sectional and opens the 申 (shen) month, the monkey month. Its branch is yang Metal, which is where Metal first enters the year, and Metal generating Water is the cycle already preparing for winter.
On the daily page it will govern until 白露 (bailu). Charts cast on either side of it carry different month pillars.