Year of the Monkey
Ji Wei 己未 · Wood monkey · 5 February 1920, 06:00 local
Monkey (猴) — Witty, curious and inventive.
- Age
- 106 years 38,975 days lived · traditional age 108 · next birthday 2027-02-05 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Monkeyby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 12th month, 16th 己未年十二月十六 · lunar year 1919
- Moon phase
- Waning Gibbous亏凸月 · lunar day 16
- Five elements
- Wood fate Wood of the Pomegranate · missing metal
- Day master
- Waterelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Aquariusthe Sun’s sign on that date
- Weekday & term
- ThursdayStart of Spring
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 1920-02-05 06:00
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This date falls in the disputed window
It is after the Start of Spring but before the lunar new year, so the two conventions disagree: Monkey by the solar-term rule used in divination, Goat by the festival rule. Printed tables usually show the second one.
Four pillars
The hour you choose only changes the last pillar; the other three stay fixed for this date.
Year
Ji Wei
己未
Earth · Goat
Month
Ding Chou
丁丑
Fire
Day
Gui Si
癸巳
Water
Hour
Yi Mao
乙卯
Wood
Element balance of the eight characters
Two different “elements” are quoted for a birth year. The Wood fate above is the traditional nayin (纳音) of the year pillar, which is what “Wood of the Pomegranate” 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 3
- Metal 0 · missing
- Water 1
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