Today is a yang metal monkey day. The monkey is yang metal. The stem and the branch are in accord.

The chart looks like this:

• Year: yin metal rabbit (wood)
• Month: yang water dragon (earth)
• Day: yang metal monkey (metal)

On the last day of the dragon month the dragon finds a friend. The monkey combines with the dragon energy and transforms into water in the month stem.

The resource palace has a representative who gets taken off course because of his mate the monkey. This empties that palace, the emperor had a close ally in the monkey but the monkey is tied up in the transformation. They are all headed for the output palace.

All this means that the emperor is weak! All his friends and allies have been taken out or converted. The feeble emperor is not to be pitied as he is able to recruit support in other ways.

What does this mean for the daily energies? Yang water is very very strong almost overwhelmed something like a flood. We need wood to be strong to be able to deal with the flood. But today wood is not strong - it is empty.

When the water palaces are too full then there is a tendency to be swept away by emotions. If you notice emotions trying to sweep over you and that fear is sitting at the base of this energy just welcome it - a great opportunity to see what lies beneath everything else. Don't forget to get some help if it gets too difficult. There are no medals for going it alone. We are not islands and we need to reach out for the right support. Not the support that encourages you to go back into old traumas but the support that helps you find the patterns that sit beneath the fears.