Year of the Ox
Ji Chou 己丑 · Fire ox · 9 October 2009, 12:00 local
Ox (牛) — Diligent, dependable and patient.
- Age
- 17 years 6,220 days lived · traditional age 18 · next birthday 2027-10-09 (as of 2026-10-20)
- Chinese zodiac
- Oxby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 8th month, 21st 己丑年八月廿一 · lunar year 2009
- Moon phase
- Waning Gibbous亏凸月 · lunar day 21
- Five elements
- Fire fate Fire of the Thunderbolt · missing metal
- Day master
- Fireelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Librafrom the Sun’s position at the solar terms
- Weekday & term
- FridayCold Dew
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 2009-10-09 12:00
Four pillars
The hour you choose only changes the last pillar; the other three stay fixed for this date.
Year
Ji Chou
己丑
Earth · Ox
Month
Jia Xu
甲戌
Wood
Day
Ding Hai
丁亥
Fire
Hour
Bing Wu
丙午
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 3
- Earth 3
- Metal 0 · missing
- Water 1
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