Year of the Snake
Ding Si 丁巳 · Earth snake · 8 December 1917, 22:00 local
Snake (蛇) — Wise, intuitive and deliberate.
- Age
- 108 years 39,764 days lived · traditional age 110 · next birthday 2026-12-08 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Snakeby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 10th month, 24th 丁巳年十月廿四 · lunar year 1917
- Moon phase
- Waning Crescent残月 · lunar day 24
- Five elements
- Earth fate Earth in the Sand · missing earth
- Day master
- Woodelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Sagittariusthe Sun’s sign on that date
- Weekday & term
- SaturdayMajor Snow
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 1917-12-08 22:00
Four pillars
The hour you choose only changes the last pillar; the other three stay fixed for this date.
Year
Ding Si
丁巳
Fire · Snake
Month
Ren Zi
壬子
Water
Day
Jia Shen
甲申
Wood
Hour
Yi Hai
乙亥
Wood
Element balance of the eight characters
Two different “elements” are quoted for a birth year. The Earth fate above is the traditional nayin (纳音) of the year pillar, which is what “Earth in the Sand” means in folk astrology. The colours and counts below come from the stem and branch of each pillar, which is the method used for a five-element reading.
- Wood 2
- Fire 2
- Earth 0 · missing
- Metal 1
- Water 3
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