Year of the Ox
Geng Zi 庚子 · Earth ox · 4 February 1961, 08:00 local
Ox (牛) — Diligent, dependable and patient.
- Age
- 65 years 24,000 days lived · traditional age 67 · next birthday 2027-02-04 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Oxby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 12th month, 19th 庚子年十二月十九 · lunar year 1960
- Moon phase
- Waning Gibbous亏凸月 · lunar day 19
- Five elements
- Earth fate Earth on the Wall · missing wood
- Day master
- Earthelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Aquariusthe Sun’s sign on that date
- Weekday & term
- SaturdayStart of Spring
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 1961-02-04 08:00
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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: Ox by the solar-term rule used in divination, Rat 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
Geng Zi
庚子
Metal · Rat
Month
Ji Chou
己丑
Earth
Day
Wu Chen
戊辰
Earth
Hour
Bing Chen
丙辰
Fire
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 0 · missing
- Fire 1
- Earth 5
- Metal 1
- Water 1
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