Year of the Tiger
Gui Chou 癸丑 · Water tiger · 4 February 1974, 09:00 local
Tiger (虎) — Brave, competitive and a natural leader.
- Age
- 52 years 19,252 days lived · traditional age 53 · next birthday 2027-02-04 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Tigerby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- Zhengyue (1st month), 13th 甲寅年正月十三 · lunar year 1974
- Moon phase
- Waxing Gibbous盈凸月 · lunar day 13
- Five elements
- Water fate Water of the Great Stream · missing metal
- Day master
- Fireelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Aquariusthe Sun’s sign on that date
- Weekday & term
- MondayStart of Spring
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 1974-02-04 09:00
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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: Tiger by the solar-term rule used in divination, Ox 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 Chou
癸丑
Water · Ox
Month
Yi Chou
乙丑
Wood
Day
Bing Zi
丙子
Fire
Hour
Gui Si
癸巳
Water
Element balance of the eight characters
Two different “elements” are quoted for a birth year. The Water fate above is the traditional nayin (纳音) of the year pillar, which is what “Water of the Great Stream” 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 2
- Earth 2
- Metal 0 · missing
- Water 3
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