Year of the Rat
Wu Zi 戊子 · Fire rat · 9 December 1948, 17:00 local
Rat (鼠) — Resourceful, quick-witted and adaptable.
- Age
- 77 years 28,440 days lived · traditional age 79 · next birthday 2026-12-09 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Ratby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 11th month, 9th 戊子年十一月初九 · lunar year 1948
- Moon phase
- Waxing Gibbous盈凸月 · lunar day 9
- Five elements
- Fire fate Fire of the Thunderbolt · missing fire
- Day master
- Earthelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Sagittariusthe Sun’s sign on that date
- Weekday & term
- ThursdayMajor Snow
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 1948-12-09 17:00
Four pillars
The hour you choose only changes the last pillar; the other three stay fixed for this date.
Year
Wu Zi
戊子
Earth · Rat
Month
Jia Zi
甲子
Wood
Day
Wu Chen
戊辰
Earth
Hour
Xin You
辛酉
Metal
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 1
- Fire 0 · missing
- Earth 3
- Metal 2
- Water 2
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