Year of the Rat
Wu Zi 戊子 · Fire rat · 18 January 1949, 08:00 local
Rat (鼠) — Resourceful, quick-witted and adaptable.
- Age
- 77 years 28,400 days lived · traditional age 79 · next birthday 2027-01-18 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Ratby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 12th month, 20th 戊子年十二月二十 · lunar year 1948
- Moon phase
- Waning Gibbous亏凸月 · lunar day 20
- Five elements
- Fire fate Fire of the Thunderbolt
- Day master
- Earthelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Capricornthe Sun’s sign on that date
- Weekday & term
- TuesdayMinor Cold
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 1949-01-18 08:00
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
Yi Chou
乙丑
Wood
Day
Wu Shen
戊申
Earth
Hour
Bing Chen
丙辰
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 1
- Fire 1
- Earth 4
- Metal 1
- Water 1
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