Year of the Loong
Wu Chen 戊辰 · Wood loong · 9 December 1988, 19:00 local
Loong (龙) — Charismatic, confident and energetic.
- Age
- 37 years 13,830 days lived · traditional age 39 · next birthday 2026-12-09 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Loongby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 11th month, 1st 戊辰年十一月初一 · lunar year 1988
- Moon phase
- New Moon新月 · lunar day 1
- Five elements
- Wood fate Wood of the Great Forest · missing fire, metal
- Day master
- Earthelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Sagittariusthe Sun’s sign on that date
- Weekday & term
- FridayMajor Snow
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 1988-12-09 19:00
Four pillars
The hour you choose only changes the last pillar; the other three stay fixed for this date.
Year
Wu Chen
戊辰
Earth · Loong
Month
Jia Zi
甲子
Wood
Day
Wu Xu
戊戌
Earth
Hour
Ren Xu
壬戌
Water
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 1
- Fire 0 · missing
- Earth 5
- Metal 0 · missing
- Water 2
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