Year of the Rat
Bing Zi 丙子 · Water rat · 18 November 1996, 16:00 local
Rat (鼠) — Resourceful, quick-witted and adaptable.
- Age
- 29 years 10,929 days lived · traditional age 31 · next birthday 2026-11-18 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Ratby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 10th month, 8th 丙子年十月初八 · lunar year 1996
- Moon phase
- First Quarter上弦月 · lunar day 8
- Five elements
- Water fate Water in the Ravine · missing wood
- Day master
- Earthelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Scorpiothe Sun’s sign on that date
- Weekday & term
- MondayStart of Winter
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 1996-11-18 16:00
Four pillars
The hour you choose only changes the last pillar; the other three stay fixed for this date.
Year
Bing Zi
丙子
Fire · Rat
Month
Ji Hai
己亥
Earth
Day
Ji Wei
己未
Earth
Hour
Ren Shen
壬申
Water
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 0 · missing
- Fire 1
- Earth 3
- Metal 1
- Water 3
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