Wu Earth Day Master (戊土)

Wu is yang Earth, pictured as a mountain or a great wall: solid, central, hard to move.

Personality

Wu people are calm, reliable and protective. They hold steady when others panic and are often the ones everyone else leans on.

Strengths

• Stability, patience and staying power
• Trustworthiness and a strong sense of duty
• A good container for people and projects

Things to watch

• Slow to change; can seem rigid or closed
• May carry too much without saying so
• Too dry (too much fire) makes Wu brittle; it needs water to be fertile

What helps a Wu Earth chart

Wu born in summer needs water first; in winter it needs fire to warm it.

Classical imagery

戊土固重，既中且正。水润物生，火燥物病。

“Wu Earth is solid and heavy, centered and upright. Moistened by water, things grow; parched by fire, they sicken.” Read: strength needs softness to become productive. — Di Tian Sui (滴天髓), “On the Heavenly Stems”; translation and gloss are our own.

A Day Master is only the starting point: two people with the same Day Master can read very differently depending on their birth month and the other seven characters in the chart.