Year of the Ox
Ji Chou 己丑 · Fire ox · 8 December 1949, 05:00 local
Ox (牛) — Diligent, dependable and patient.
- Age
- 76 years 28,076 days lived · traditional age 78 · next birthday 2026-12-08 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Oxby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 10th month, 19th 己丑年十月十九 · lunar year 1949
- Moon phase
- Waning Gibbous亏凸月 · lunar day 19
- Five elements
- Fire fate Fire of the Thunderbolt
- Day master
- Waterelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Sagittariusthe Sun’s sign on that date
- Weekday & term
- ThursdayMajor Snow
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 1949-12-08 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
Bing Zi
丙子
Fire
Day
Ren Shen
壬申
Water
Hour
Gui Mao
癸卯
Water
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 2
- Metal 1
- Water 3
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