Year of the Dog
Bing Xu 丙戌 · Earth dog · 7 November 2006, 00:00 local
Dog (狗) — Loyal, sincere and responsible.
- Age
- 19 years 7,287 days lived · traditional age 21 · next birthday 2026-11-07 (as of 2026-10-20)
- Chinese zodiac
- Dogby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 9th month, 17th 丙戌年九月十七 · 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
- Scorpiofrom the Sun’s position at the solar terms
- Weekday & term
- TuesdayStart of Winter
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 2006-11-07 00:00
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
Wu Xu
戊戌
Earth
Day
Geng Zi
庚子
Metal
Hour
Bing Zi
丙子
Fire
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 2
- Earth 3
- Metal 1
- Water 2
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