Year of the Ox
Ji Chou 己丑 · Fire ox · 8 May 1949, 05:00 local
Ox (牛) — Diligent, dependable and patient.
- Age
- 77 years 28,290 days lived · traditional age 78 · next birthday 2027-05-08 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Oxby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 4th month, 11th 己丑年四月十一 · lunar year 1949
- Moon phase
- Waxing Gibbous盈凸月 · lunar day 11
- Five elements
- Fire fate Fire of the Thunderbolt · missing metal, water
- Day master
- Earthelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Taurusthe Sun’s sign on that date
- Weekday & term
- SundayStart of Summer
- Time zone used
- UTC+9Asia/Shanghai · China time 1949-05-08 05:00
Four pillars
The hour you choose only changes the last pillar; the other three stay fixed for this date.
Year
Ji Chou
己丑
Earth · Ox
Month
Ji Si
己巳
Earth
Day
Wu Xu
戊戌
Earth
Hour
Yi Mao
乙卯
Wood
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 2
- Fire 1
- Earth 5
- Metal 0 · missing
- Water 0 · missing
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