月令

Month Command

月令 · Yuèlìng

The seasonal influence represented by the birth month's Earthly Branch. It provides context for reading the whole chart, rather than automatically naming the element a person needs.

In more detail

The month branch changes at one of the twelve jie solar terms. Its seasonal associations belong to the traditional calendar framework, rather than a measurement of local weather at the birthplace.

Also called: Seasonal Command

The characters

  1. 月yuèmoon; month
  2. 令lìngcommand; season

Together, 月令 reads “the month’s command”: the month in charge of the season.

Sources

These terms describe a traditional symbolic framework. Chart interpretation and our naming method remain experimental.

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