Year of the Rat
Ding Hai 丁亥 · Fire rat · 5 February 1948, 00:00 local
Rat (鼠) — Resourceful, quick-witted and adaptable.
- Age
- 78 years 28,748 days lived · traditional age 80 · next birthday 2027-02-05 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Ratby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 12th month, 26th 丁亥年十二月廿六 · lunar year 1947
- Moon phase
- Waning Crescent残月 · lunar day 26
- Five elements
- Fire fate Fire of the Thunderbolt · missing wood
- 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 1948-02-05 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: Rat by the solar-term rule used in divination, Pig 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
Ding Hai
丁亥
Fire · Pig
Month
Gui Chou
癸丑
Water
Day
Geng Shen
庚申
Metal
Hour
Bing Zi
丙子
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 of the Thunderbolt” 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 0 · missing
- Fire 2
- Earth 1
- Metal 2
- Water 3
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