Year of the Snake
Jia Chen 甲辰 · Fire snake · 4 February 1965, 01:00 local
Snake (蛇) — Wise, intuitive and deliberate.
- Age
- 61 years 22,539 days lived · traditional age 62 · next birthday 2027-02-04 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Snakeby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- Zhengyue (1st month), 3rd 乙巳年正月初三 · lunar year 1965
- Moon phase
- Waxing Crescent蛾眉月 · lunar day 3
- Five elements
- Fire fate Fire of the Lantern · missing metal, water
- Day master
- Earthelement 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 1965-02-04 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: 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
Jia Chen
甲辰
Wood · Loong
Month
Ding Chou
丁丑
Fire
Day
Ji Chou
己丑
Earth
Hour
Yi Chou
乙丑
Wood
Element balance of the eight characters
Two different “elements” are quoted for a birth year. The Fire fate above is the traditional nayin (纳音) of the year pillar, which is what “Fire of the Lantern” 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 5
- Metal 0 · missing
- Water 0 · missing
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