Year of the Rat
Jia Zi 甲子 · Metal rat · 5 December 1924, 03:00 local
Rat (鼠) — Resourceful, quick-witted and adaptable.
- Age
- 101 years 37,210 days lived · traditional age 103 · next birthday 2026-12-05 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Ratby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 11th month, 9th 甲子年十一月初九 · lunar year 1924
- Moon phase
- Waxing Gibbous盈凸月 · lunar day 9
- Five elements
- Metal fate Gold in the Sea · missing metal
- Day master
- Earthelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Sagittariusthe Sun’s sign on that date
- Weekday & term
- FridayMinor Snow
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 1924-12-05 03:00
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
Yi Hai
乙亥
Wood
Day
Wu Wu
戊午
Earth
Hour
Jia Yin
甲寅
Wood
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 4
- Fire 1
- Earth 1
- Metal 0 · missing
- Water 2
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