Year of the Rat
Ji Hai 己亥 · Earth rat · 5 February 1960, 03:00 local
Rat (鼠) — Resourceful, quick-witted and adaptable.
- Age
- 66 years 24,365 days lived · traditional age 67 · next birthday 2027-02-05 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Ratby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- Zhengyue (1st month), 9th 庚子年正月初九 · lunar year 1960
- Moon phase
- Waxing Gibbous盈凸月 · lunar day 9
- Five elements
- Earth fate Earth on the Wall · missing metal
- Day master
- Waterelement 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 1960-02-05 03:00
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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: Rat by the solar-term rule used in divination, Pig 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
Ji Hai
己亥
Earth · Pig
Month
Ding Chou
丁丑
Fire
Day
Gui Hai
癸亥
Water
Hour
Jia Yin
甲寅
Wood
Element balance of the eight characters
Two different “elements” are quoted for a birth year. The Earth fate above is the traditional nayin (纳音) of the year pillar, which is what “Earth on the Wall” 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 2
- Metal 0 · missing
- Water 3
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