Year of the Horse
Gui Si 癸巳 · Metal horse · 4 February 1954, 01:00 local
Horse (马) — Free-spirited, energetic and adventurous.
- Age
- 72 years 26,557 days lived · traditional age 73 · next birthday 2027-02-04 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Horseby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- Zhengyue (1st month), 2nd 甲午年正月初二 · lunar year 1954
- Moon phase
- Waxing Crescent蛾眉月 · lunar day 2
- Five elements
- Metal fate Gold in the Sand
- Day master
- Metalelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Aquariusthe Sun’s sign on that date
- Weekday & term
- ThursdayStart of Spring
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 1954-02-04 01:00
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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: Horse by the solar-term rule used in divination, Snake 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
Gui Si
癸巳
Water · Snake
Month
Yi Chou
乙丑
Wood
Day
Xin Mao
辛卯
Metal
Hour
Ji Chou
己丑
Earth
Element balance of the eight characters
Two different “elements” are quoted for a birth year. The Metal fate above is the traditional nayin (纳音) of the year pillar, which is what “Gold in the Sand” 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 3
- Metal 1
- Water 1
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