Year of the Rat
Yi Hai 乙亥 · Water rat · 4 February 1996, 16:00 local
Rat (鼠) — Resourceful, quick-witted and adaptable.
- Age
- 30 years 11,217 days lived · traditional age 32 · next birthday 2027-02-04 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Ratby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 12th month, 16th 乙亥年十二月十六 · lunar year 1995
- Moon phase
- Full Moon满月 · lunar day 16
- Five elements
- Water fate Water in the Ravine
- Day master
- Metalelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Aquariusthe Sun’s sign on that date
- Weekday & term
- SundayStart of Spring
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 1996-02-04 16:00
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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: Rat by the solar-term rule used in divination, Pig 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 Hai
乙亥
Wood · Pig
Month
Ji Chou
己丑
Earth
Day
Xin Wei
辛未
Metal
Hour
Bing Shen
丙申
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 in the Ravine” 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 1
- Earth 3
- Metal 2
- Water 1
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