The fourth sky
Born on a Monday.
The Moon is the fastest thing in the old sky and the only one that visibly changes shape. It brings water: what it touches moves, takes the form of whatever holds it, and is not the same thing two weeks running.
Nobody decided this here.
Thai weekdays are named for the seven bodies of the old sky, and so are Korean ones. The Sun and the Moon are the two not named for an element, so this one comes from the Purple Star chart instead, where 太陽 is fire and 太陰 is water. That table was already in this reading before Thailand was.
| Thai | Monday |
| Star | the Moon |
| Korean | 월요일 (月) · water |
Pang Ham Yat ปางห้ามญาติ
Standing, both hands raised to chest height, stopping a quarrel between kin.
Thai temples keep one image for each day of the week, and people born on that day pay respects to theirs. If you were born on a Monday, this is the one you look for.
Two colours
A day's colour is the body colour of the deity who holds it. The one to avoid comes from the same wheel, one step behind your own star. Both are fixed — we do not carry the lucky-shirt colours that change every year.
| Yours | yellow · the Moon |
| Avoid | red · the Sun |
A hundred and eight years.
Thai astrology reads a life as eight planetary periods, and the one you start in is the star that owns your birthday. That is the whole reason the weekday matters here — it sets where the clock begins. Eight periods, 108 years, then it comes around again.
| Age | Star | Years |
|---|---|---|
| 0–15 | the Moon | 15 |
| 15–23 | Mars | 8 |
| 23–40 | Mercury | 17 |
| 40–50 | Saturn | 10 |
| 50–69 | Jupiter | 19 |
| 69–81 | Rahu | 12 |
| 81–102 | Venus | 21 |
| 102–108 | the Sun | 6 |
A Thai day starts at six in the morning.
Not at midnight. A day runs from 06:00 to 05:59 the next morning, so anyone born in those small hours belongs to the day before — about one birth in four. If you were born between midnight and six, the page you want is Sunday, not this one.
The other seven
This is one sky. You have four.
A weekday is a quarter of the answer at most, and on its own it says the same thing to one person in eight. What it means for you depends on the element you actually are — your day master — and that needs your date, your hour and your birthplace.
Find your crossing