Year of the Loong
Ding Mao 丁卯 · Wood loong · 4 February 1988, 00:00 local
Loong (龙) — Charismatic, confident and energetic.
- Age
- 38 years 14,139 days lived · traditional age 40 · next birthday 2027-02-04 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Loongby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 12th month, 17th 丁卯年十二月十七 · lunar year 1987
- Moon phase
- Waning Gibbous亏凸月 · lunar day 17
- Five elements
- Wood fate Wood of the Great Forest · missing metal
- 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 1988-02-04 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: Loong by the solar-term rule used in divination, Rabbit 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
Ding Mao
丁卯
Fire · Rabbit
Month
Gui Chou
癸丑
Water
Day
Ji Chou
己丑
Earth
Hour
Jia Zi
甲子
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 Great Forest” 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 2
- Fire 1
- Earth 3
- Metal 0 · missing
- Water 2
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