Year of the Snake
Geng Chen 庚辰 · Metal snake · 4 February 2001, 02:00 local
Snake (蛇) — Wise, intuitive and deliberate.
- Age
- 25 years 9,390 days lived · traditional age 26 · next birthday 2027-02-04 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Snakeby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- Zhengyue (1st month), 12th 辛巳年正月十二 · lunar year 2001
- Moon phase
- Waxing Gibbous盈凸月 · lunar day 12
- Five elements
- Metal fate Gold in White Wax · missing wood, fire
- Day master
- Earthelement 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 2001-02-04 02:00
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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: Snake by the solar-term rule used in divination, Loong 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
Geng Chen
庚辰
Metal · Loong
Month
Ji Chou
己丑
Earth
Day
Wu Xu
戊戌
Earth
Hour
Gui Chou
癸丑
Water
Element balance of the eight characters
Two different “elements” are quoted for a birth year. The Metal fate above is the traditional nayin (纳音) of the year pillar, which is what “Gold in White Wax” 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 0 · missing
- Earth 6
- Metal 1
- Water 1
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