Year of the Monkey
Gui Wei 癸未 · Water monkey · 5 February 1944, 00:00 local
Monkey (猴) — Witty, curious and inventive.
- Age
- 82 years 30,209 days lived · traditional age 83 · next birthday 2027-02-05 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Monkeyby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- Zhengyue (1st month), 12th 甲申年正月十二 · lunar year 1944
- Moon phase
- Waxing Gibbous盈凸月 · lunar day 12
- Five elements
- Water fate Water in the Spring · missing fire, metal
- Day master
- Earthelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Aquariusthe Sun’s sign on that date
- Weekday & term
- SaturdayStart of Spring
- Time zone used
- UTC+9Asia/Shanghai · China time 1944-02-05 00:00
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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: Monkey by the solar-term rule used in divination, Goat 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 Wei
癸未
Water · Goat
Month
Yi Chou
乙丑
Wood
Day
Ji Hai
己亥
Earth
Hour
Jia Zi
甲子
Wood
Element balance of the eight characters
Two different “elements” are quoted for a birth year. The Water fate above is the traditional nayin (纳音) of the year pillar, which is what “Water in the Spring” 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 3
- Metal 0 · missing
- Water 3
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