Yang Metal · Monkey

Chinese Four Pillars names each day with two characters: a stem carrying one of five elements, and a branch carrying one of twelve animals. The pair repeats every sixty days.

A day like an axe. Decisive and clean. Cut the thing you have been trimming for weeks.

The Monkey underneath: cleverness and improvisation. Try the workaround before the plan.

Try this: write the problem in one sentence. If it needs two, it is two problems.