Day of the Week You Were Born
Your inborn tendencies and this year's fortune by the day you were born.
Your inborn nature, this year’s fortune, and lucky points read from the weekday you were born on. The idea that the day of the week shapes a person spread through the old English rhyme "Monday’s Child", which is where each day’s character description comes from. Because the day names descend from the Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn, they are also read alongside the planetary characters of astrology.
How it works
Enter your birth date and we work out which weekday you were born on. Lunar birthdays are converted to the solar calendar before the weekday is counted.
What you'll get
You get the one weekday you were born on together with the planet assigned to it. Unlike a fortune that changes daily, the weekday stays the same for life, so the same result however often you open it is normal. That one weekday carries a temperament and a love style, a line of work, money and health, the year ahead, what to watch for and a lucky point — all on one screen.
The names of the days come from seven planets
Sunday and Monday are the Sun and the Moon, and Saturday is Saturn, plainly enough. Tuesday through Friday kept the same planetary positions but exchanged the Roman gods for northern ones, so Mars became Tiw, Mercury became Woden, Jupiter became Thor and Venus became Frigg. East Asian names run in exactly the same order as fire, water, wood and metal for those four days. That shared frame is why the character of a weekday gets read alongside the character of a planet.
The rhyme comes in more than one version
The idea that children born on different days differ in temperament comes from an old English nursery rhyme, and that rhyme survives in several versions with the descriptions swapped between days. In one version the Thursday child has far to go; in another it is the Wednesday child. So if a weekday reading you saw elsewhere differs from the one here, neither is wrong: they follow different versions of the same rhyme.
One person in seven shares your day
There are only seven days to be born on, so one person in seven anywhere in the world was born on the same one as you. This is a picture painted with a very broad brush. If the brush still catches something true, that is a pleasure in itself, but it is not the place to expect the fine detail to land. Read it alongside Saju or your star sign, which use the whole date, and the broad grain and the detail fill each other in.
This is not about how a weekday feels
Monday sitting heavy and Friday coming as a relief has to do with how the working week is arranged, not with the character of people born on those days. Being born on a Monday does not make every Monday suit you. The day named here is a marker for the single day you were born, while how a weekday feels is something your current workplace or school built. Please do not read the two as one.
Do not judge people by the day they were born
Most people do not know the day they were born on, and even knowing it, nobody chose it. Please refrain from gauging what someone is like by a value of that sort. It comes from an old Western rhyme, so enjoy it as entertainment, and if the description of your temperament pleases you, carrying it lightly through the day is quite enough. If it misses, letting it miss costs you nothing, since nobody chose the day in the first place.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is reading personality from a weekday based on?
It comes from the old Western lore of "Monday's Child," where each weekday carries its own nature. Please read it as entertainment.
Can I enter a lunar birthday?
Yes. It is converted to the solar calendar first, and the weekday is calculated from that date.
I do not know what day of the week I was born on.
Just enter your birth date and the day is worked out for you. There is nothing to look up, and the weekday appears in the result.
How does this differ from Korean traditional fortune-telling?
Reading character from the weekday is a Western tradition. It belongs to a different lineage than East Asian astrology, which counts stems and branches, so the same person may hear somewhat different things from the two. Read them side by side.