Year of the Goat
Jia Wu 甲午 · Metal goat · 4 February 1955, 19:00 local
Goat (羊) — Harmonious, creative and gentle.
- Age
- 71 years 26,192 days lived · traditional age 72 · next birthday 2027-02-04 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Goatby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- Zhengyue (1st month), 12th 乙未年正月十二 · lunar year 1955
- Moon phase
- Waxing Gibbous盈凸月 · lunar day 12
- Five elements
- Metal fate Gold in the Sand · missing water
- Day master
- Fireelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Aquariusthe Sun’s sign on that date
- Weekday & term
- FridayStart of Spring
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 1955-02-04 19:00
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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: Goat by the solar-term rule used in divination, Horse 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
Jia Wu
甲午
Wood · Horse
Month
Ding Chou
丁丑
Fire
Day
Bing Shen
丙申
Fire
Hour
Wu Xu
戊戌
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 1
- Fire 3
- Earth 3
- Metal 1
- Water 0 · missing
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