Year of the Tiger
Yi Chou 乙丑 · Fire tiger · 4 February 1986, 00:00 local
Tiger (虎) — Brave, competitive and a natural leader.
- Age
- 40 years 14,869 days lived · traditional age 42 · next birthday 2027-02-04 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Tigerby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 12th month, 26th 乙丑年十二月廿六 · lunar year 1985
- Moon phase
- Waning Crescent残月 · lunar day 26
- Five elements
- Fire fate Fire from the Furnace · missing fire, metal
- Day master
- Earthelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Aquariusthe Sun’s sign on that date
- Weekday & term
- TuesdayStart of Spring
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 1986-02-04 00:00
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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
Yi Chou
乙丑
Wood · Ox
Month
Ji Chou
己丑
Earth
Day
Ji Mao
己卯
Earth
Hour
Jia Zi
甲子
Wood
Element balance of the eight characters
Two different “elements” are quoted for a birth year. The Fire fate above is the traditional nayin (纳音) of the year pillar, which is what “Fire from the Furnace” 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 3
- Fire 0 · missing
- Earth 4
- Metal 0 · missing
- Water 1
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