Year of the Monkey
Jia Shen 甲申 · Water monkey · 20 January 2005, 12:00 local
Monkey (猴) — Witty, curious and inventive.
- Age
- 21 years 7,943 days lived · traditional age 23 · next birthday 2027-01-20 (as of 2026-10-20)
- Chinese zodiac
- Monkeyby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 12th month, 11th 甲申年十二月十一 · lunar year 2004
- Moon phase
- Waxing Gibbous盈凸月 · lunar day 11
- Five elements
- Water fate Water in the Spring · missing water
- Day master
- Woodelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Aquariusfrom the Sun’s position at the solar terms
- Weekday & term
- ThursdayMajor Cold
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 2005-01-20 12:00
Four pillars
The hour you choose only changes the last pillar; the other three stay fixed for this date.
Year
Jia Shen
甲申
Wood · Monkey
Month
Ding Chou
丁丑
Fire
Day
Jia Chen
甲辰
Wood
Hour
Geng Wu
庚午
Metal
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 Spring” 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 2
- Earth 2
- Metal 2
- Water 0 · missing
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