Year of the Rat
Gui Hai 癸亥 · Metal rat · 5 February 1924, 08:00 local
Rat (鼠) — Resourceful, quick-witted and adaptable.
- Age
- 102 years 37,514 days lived · traditional age 103 · next birthday 2027-02-05 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Ratby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- Zhengyue (1st month), 1st 甲子年正月初一 · lunar year 1924
- Moon phase
- New Moon新月 · lunar day 1
- Five elements
- Metal fate Gold in the Sea · missing fire, metal
- Day master
- Woodelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Aquariusthe Sun’s sign on that date
- Weekday & term
- TuesdayStart of Spring
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 1924-02-05 08:00
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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: Rat by the solar-term rule used in divination, Pig 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
Gui Hai
癸亥
Water · Pig
Month
Yi Chou
乙丑
Wood
Day
Jia Yin
甲寅
Wood
Hour
Wu Chen
戊辰
Earth
Element balance of the eight characters
Two different “elements” are quoted for a birth year. The Metal fate above is the traditional nayin (纳音) of the year pillar, which is what “Gold in the Sea” 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 3
- Fire 0 · missing
- Earth 3
- Metal 0 · missing
- Water 2
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