Year of the Dog
Bing Xu 丙戌 · Earth dog · 8 October 2006, 12:00 local
Dog (狗) — Loyal, sincere and responsible.
- Age
- 20 years 7,317 days lived · traditional age 21 · next birthday 2027-10-08 (as of 2026-10-20)
- Chinese zodiac
- Dogby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 8th month, 17th 丙戌年八月十七 · lunar year 2006
- Moon phase
- Waning Gibbous亏凸月 · lunar day 17
- Five elements
- Earth fate Earth on the Roof · missing wood
- Day master
- Metalelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Librafrom the Sun’s position at the solar terms
- Weekday & term
- SundayCold Dew
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 2006-10-08 12:00
Four pillars
The hour you choose only changes the last pillar; the other three stay fixed for this date.
Year
Bing Xu
丙戌
Fire · Dog
Month
Ding You
丁酉
Fire
Day
Geng Wu
庚午
Metal
Hour
Ren Wu
壬午
Water
Element balance of the eight characters
Two different “elements” are quoted for a birth year. The Earth fate above is the traditional nayin (纳音) of the year pillar, which is what “Earth on the Roof” 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 4
- Earth 1
- Metal 2
- Water 1
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