Year of the Tiger
Ji Chou 己丑 · Wood tiger · 4 February 2010, 03:00 local
Tiger (虎) — Brave, competitive and natural-born leader.
- Age
- 16 years 6,102 days lived · traditional age 18 · next birthday 2027-02-04 (as of 2026-10-20)
- Chinese zodiac
- Tigerby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 12th month, 21st 己丑年十二月廿一 · lunar year 2009
- Moon phase
- Waning Gibbous亏凸月 · lunar day 21
- Five elements
- Wood fate Wood of Pine and Cypress · missing water
- Day master
- Woodelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Aquariusfrom the Sun’s position at the solar terms
- Weekday & term
- ThursdayStart of Spring
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 2010-02-04 03:00
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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: Tiger by the solar-term rule used in divination, Ox 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
Ji Chou
己丑
Earth · Ox
Month
Ding Chou
丁丑
Fire
Day
Yi You
乙酉
Wood
Hour
Wu Yin
戊寅
Earth
Element balance of the eight characters
Two different “elements” are quoted for a birth year. The Wood fate above is the traditional nayin (纳音) of the year pillar, which is what “Wood of Pine and Cypress” 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 4
- Metal 1
- Water 0 · missing
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