Year of the Snake
Ren Chen 壬辰 · Water snake · 4 February 1953, 00:00 local
Snake (蛇) — Wise, intuitive and deliberate.
- Age
- 73 years 26,922 days lived · traditional age 75 · next birthday 2027-02-04 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Snakeby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 12th month, 21st 壬辰年十二月廿一 · lunar year 1952
- Moon phase
- Waning Gibbous亏凸月 · lunar day 21
- Five elements
- Water fate Ever-Flowing Water · missing wood, metal
- Day master
- Fireelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Aquariusthe Sun’s sign on that date
- Weekday & term
- WednesdayStart of Spring
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 1953-02-04 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: Snake by the solar-term rule used in divination, Loong 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
Ren Chen
壬辰
Water · Loong
Month
Gui Chou
癸丑
Water
Day
Bing Xu
丙戌
Fire
Hour
Wu Zi
戊子
Earth
Element balance of the eight characters
Two different “elements” are quoted for a birth year. The Water fate above is the traditional nayin (纳音) of the year pillar, which is what “Ever-Flowing Water” 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 1
- Earth 4
- Metal 0 · missing
- Water 3
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