Year of the Dog
Xin You 辛酉 · Water dog · 4 February 1982, 07:00 local
Dog (狗) — Loyal, sincere and responsible.
- Age
- 44 years 16,330 days lived · traditional age 45 · next birthday 2027-02-04 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Dogby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- Zhengyue (1st month), 11th 壬戌年正月十一 · lunar year 1982
- Moon phase
- Waxing Gibbous盈凸月 · lunar day 11
- Five elements
- Water fate Water of the Great Sea · missing wood, 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 1982-02-04 07:00
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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: Dog by the solar-term rule used in divination, Rooster 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
Xin You
辛酉
Metal · Rooster
Month
Xin Chou
辛丑
Metal
Day
Wu Wu
戊午
Earth
Hour
Bing Chen
丙辰
Fire
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 Sea” 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 3
- Metal 3
- Water 0 · missing
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