Year of the Ox
Wu Zi 戊子 · Fire ox · 4 February 2009, 00:00 local
Ox (牛) — Diligent, dependable and patient.
- Age
- 17 years 6,467 days lived · traditional age 18 · next birthday 2027-02-04 (as of 2026-10-20)
- Chinese zodiac
- Oxby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- Zhengyue (1st month), 10th 己丑年正月初十 · lunar year 2009
- Moon phase
- Waxing Gibbous盈凸月 · lunar day 10
- Five elements
- Fire fate Fire of the Thunderbolt
- Day master
- Metalelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Aquariusfrom the Sun’s position at the solar terms
- Weekday & term
- WednesdayStart of Spring
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 2009-02-04 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: Ox by the solar-term rule used in divination, Rat 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
Wu Zi
戊子
Earth · Rat
Month
Yi Chou
乙丑
Wood
Day
Geng Chen
庚辰
Metal
Hour
Bing Zi
丙子
Fire
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 1
- Fire 1
- Earth 3
- Metal 1
- Water 2
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