Year of the Snake
Gui Si 癸巳 · Water snake · 17 January 2014, 16:00 local
Snake (蛇) — Wise, intuitive and deliberate.
- Age
- 12 years 4,660 days lived · traditional age 14 · next birthday 2027-01-17 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Snakeby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 12th month, 17th 癸巳年十二月十七 · lunar year 2013
- Moon phase
- Waning Gibbous亏凸月 · lunar day 17
- Five elements
- Water fate Ever-Flowing Water
- Day master
- Earthelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Capricornthe Sun’s sign on that date
- Weekday & term
- FridayMinor Cold
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 2014-01-17 16:00
Four pillars
The hour you choose only changes the last pillar; the other three stay fixed for this date.
Year
Gui Si
癸巳
Water · Snake
Month
Yi Chou
乙丑
Wood
Day
Wu Zi
戊子
Earth
Hour
Geng Shen
庚申
Metal
Element balance of the eight characters
Two different “elements” are quoted for a birth year. The Water fate above is the traditional nayin (纳音) of the year pillar, which is what “Ever-Flowing Water” 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 2
- Metal 2
- Water 2
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