Year of the Rat
Jia Zi 甲子 · Metal rat · 9 September 1924, 21:00 local
Rat (鼠) — Resourceful, quick-witted and adaptable.
- Age
- 102 years 37,297 days lived · traditional age 103 · next birthday 2027-09-09 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Ratby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 8th month, 11th 甲子年八月十一 · lunar year 1924
- Moon phase
- Waxing Gibbous盈凸月 · lunar day 11
- Five elements
- Metal fate Gold in the Sea · missing fire
- Day master
- Metalelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Virgothe Sun’s sign on that date
- Weekday & term
- TuesdayWhite Dew
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 1924-09-09 21:00
Four pillars
The hour you choose only changes the last pillar; the other three stay fixed for this date.
Year
Jia Zi
甲子
Wood · Rat
Month
Gui You
癸酉
Water
Day
Xin Mao
辛卯
Metal
Hour
Ji Hai
己亥
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 2
- Fire 0 · missing
- Earth 1
- Metal 2
- Water 3
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