Year of the Monkey
Geng Shen 庚申 · Wood monkey · 21 January 1981, 22:00 local
Monkey (猴) — Witty, curious and inventive.
- Age
- 45 years 16,709 days lived · traditional age 47 · next birthday 2027-01-21 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Monkeyby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 12th month, 16th 庚申年十二月十六 · lunar year 1980
- Moon phase
- Waning Gibbous亏凸月 · lunar day 16
- Five elements
- Wood fate Wood of the Pomegranate · missing fire
- Day master
- Earthelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Aquariusthe Sun’s sign on that date
- Weekday & term
- WednesdayMajor Cold
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 1981-01-21 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
Ji Chou
己丑
Earth
Day
Ji Hai
己亥
Earth
Hour
Yi Hai
乙亥
Wood
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 0 · missing
- Earth 3
- Metal 2
- Water 2
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