Year of the Ox
Jia Zi 甲子 · Metal ox · 4 February 1925, 04:00 local
Ox (牛) — Diligent, dependable and patient.
- Age
- 101 years 37,149 days lived · traditional age 102 · next birthday 2027-02-04 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Oxby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- Zhengyue (1st month), 12th 乙丑年正月十二 · lunar year 1925
- Moon phase
- Waxing Gibbous盈凸月 · lunar day 12
- Five elements
- Metal fate Gold in the Sea · missing metal
- Day master
- Earthelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Aquariusthe Sun’s sign on that date
- Weekday & term
- WednesdayStart of Spring
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 1925-02-04 04:00
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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: Ox by the solar-term rule used in divination, Rat 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
Jia Zi
甲子
Wood · Rat
Month
Ding Chou
丁丑
Fire
Day
Ji Wei
己未
Earth
Hour
Bing Yin
丙寅
Fire
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 2
- Earth 3
- Metal 0 · missing
- Water 1
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