Year of the Ox
Ji Chou 己丑 · Fire ox · 31 December 2009, 20:00 local
Ox (牛) — Diligent, dependable and patient.
- Age
- 16 years 6,138 days lived · traditional age 18 · next birthday 2026-12-31 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Oxby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 11th month, 16th 己丑年十一月十六 · lunar year 2009
- Moon phase
- Waxing Gibbous盈凸月 · lunar day 16
- Five elements
- Fire fate Fire of the Thunderbolt · missing wood
- Day master
- Metalelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Capricornthe Sun’s sign on that date
- Weekday & term
- ThursdayWinter Solstice
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 2009-12-31 20:00
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
Bing Zi
丙子
Fire
Day
Geng Xu
庚戌
Metal
Hour
Bing Xu
丙戌
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 0 · missing
- Fire 2
- Earth 4
- Metal 1
- Water 1
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