Year of the Monkey
Geng Shen 庚申 · Wood monkey · 7 February 1980, 19:00 local
Monkey (猴) — Witty, curious and inventive.
- Age
- 46 years 17,058 days lived · traditional age 48 · next birthday 2027-02-07 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Monkeyby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 12th month, 21st 己未年十二月廿一 · lunar year 1979
- Moon phase
- Waning Gibbous亏凸月 · lunar day 21
- Five elements
- Wood fate Wood of the Pomegranate · missing water
- Day master
- Metalelement 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 1980-02-07 19:00
Four pillars
The hour you choose only changes the last pillar; the other three stay fixed for this date.
Year
Geng Shen
庚申
Metal · Monkey
Month
Wu Yin
戊寅
Earth
Day
Geng Xu
庚戌
Metal
Hour
Bing Xu
丙戌
Fire
Element balance of the eight characters
Two different “elements” are quoted for a birth year. The Wood fate above is the traditional nayin (纳音) of the year pillar, which is what “Wood of the Pomegranate” 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 1
- Earth 3
- Metal 3
- Water 0 · missing
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