Year of the Rat
Ding Hai 丁亥 · Fire rat · 4 February 2008, 00:00 local
Rat (鼠) — Resourceful, quick-witted and adaptable.
- Age
- 18 years 6,833 days lived · traditional age 20 · next birthday 2027-02-04 (as of 2026-10-20)
- Chinese zodiac
- Ratby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 12th month, 28th 丁亥年十二月廿八 · lunar year 2007
- Moon phase
- Waning Crescent残月 · lunar day 28
- Five elements
- Fire fate Fire of the Thunderbolt · missing metal
- Day master
- Woodelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Aquariusfrom the Sun’s position at the solar terms
- Weekday & term
- MondayStart of Spring
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 2008-02-04 00:00
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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: Rat by the solar-term rule used in divination, Pig 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
Ding Hai
丁亥
Fire · Pig
Month
Gui Chou
癸丑
Water
Day
Jia Xu
甲戌
Wood
Hour
Jia Zi
甲子
Wood
Element balance of the eight characters
Two different “elements” are quoted for a birth year. The Fire fate above is the traditional nayin (纳音) of the year pillar, which is what “Fire of the Thunderbolt” 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 1
- Earth 2
- Metal 0 · missing
- Water 3
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