Year of the Dog
Gui You 癸酉 · Fire dog · 4 February 1934, 18:00 local
Dog (狗) — Loyal, sincere and responsible.
- Age
- 92 years 33,862 days lived · traditional age 94 · next birthday 2027-02-04 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Dogby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 12th month, 21st 癸酉年十二月廿一 · lunar year 1933
- Moon phase
- Waning Gibbous亏凸月 · lunar day 21
- Five elements
- Fire fate Fire atop the Hill
- Day master
- Fireelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Aquariusthe Sun’s sign on that date
- Weekday & term
- SundayStart of Spring
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 1934-02-04 18:00
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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: Dog by the solar-term rule used in divination, Rooster 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 You
癸酉
Water · Rooster
Month
Yi Chou
乙丑
Wood
Day
Bing Wu
丙午
Fire
Hour
Ding You
丁酉
Fire
Element balance of the eight characters
Two different “elements” are quoted for a birth year. The Fire fate above is the traditional nayin (纳音) of the year pillar, which is what “Fire atop the Hill” 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 3
- Earth 1
- Metal 2
- Water 1
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