The Sixty Day Pillars
The day pillar is the stem-and-branch pair governing the day you were born. There are sixty of them, and the Ming-dynasty encyclopedias give each one an image and a set of conditions — not a personality label.
Each page below quotes the primary text in the original characters with a translation and a citation, and lists the deterministic structure of the pillar: its nayin, its hidden stems, and where the stem falls in the twelve-stage cycle. 10 of the sixty are written so far; the rest are listed for completeness and will fill in as the series continues.
Enter a birth date and time to get the four pillars, the hidden stems, the nayin and the twelve-stage placements for a real chart — the same tables this page is built on.
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