Year of the Monkey
Geng Shen 庚申 · Wood monkey · 23 December 1980, 22:00 local
Monkey (猴) — Witty, curious and inventive.
- Age
- 45 years 16,738 days lived · traditional age 47 · next birthday 2026-12-23 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Monkeyby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 11th month, 17th 庚申年十一月十七 · lunar year 1980
- Moon phase
- Waning Gibbous亏凸月 · lunar day 17
- Five elements
- Wood fate Wood of the Pomegranate · missing wood
- Day master
- Metalelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Capricornthe Sun’s sign on that date
- Weekday & term
- TuesdayWinter Solstice
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 1980-12-23 22:00
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 Zi
戊子
Earth
Day
Geng Wu
庚午
Metal
Hour
Ding Hai
丁亥
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 0 · missing
- Fire 2
- Earth 1
- Metal 3
- Water 2
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