Year of the Goat
Geng Wu 庚午 · Earth goat · 5 February 1931, 02:00 local
Goat (羊) — Harmonious, creative and gentle.
- Age
- 95 years 34,957 days lived · traditional age 97 · next birthday 2027-02-05 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Goatby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 12th month, 18th 庚午年十二月十八 · lunar year 1930
- Moon phase
- Waning Gibbous亏凸月 · lunar day 18
- Five elements
- Earth fate Earth by the Roadside · missing water
- Day master
- Metalelement 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 1931-02-05 02:00
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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: Goat by the solar-term rule used in divination, Horse by the festival rule. Printed tables usually show the second one.
Four pillars
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Year
Geng Wu
庚午
Metal · Horse
Month
Ji Chou
己丑
Earth
Day
Xin Mao
辛卯
Metal
Hour
Ji Chou
己丑
Earth
Element balance of the eight characters
Two different “elements” are quoted for a birth year. The Earth fate above is the traditional nayin (纳音) of the year pillar, which is what “Earth by the Roadside” 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 1
- Fire 1
- Earth 4
- Metal 2
- Water 0 · missing
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