Year of the Dog
Wu Xu 戊戌 · Wood dog · 5 April 2018, 07:00 local
Dog (狗) — Loyal, sincere and responsible.
- Age
- 8 years 3,120 days lived · traditional age 9 · next birthday 2027-04-05 (as of 2026-10-20)
- Chinese zodiac
- Dogby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 2th month, 20th 戊戌年二月二十 · lunar year 2018
- Moon phase
- Waning Gibbous亏凸月 · lunar day 20
- Five elements
- Wood fate Wood on the Plain · missing metal, water
- Day master
- Fireelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Ariesfrom the Sun’s position at the solar terms
- Weekday & term
- ThursdayPure Brightness
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 2018-04-05 07:00
Four pillars
The hour you choose only changes the last pillar; the other three stay fixed for this date.
Year
Wu Xu
戊戌
Earth · Dog
Month
Bing Chen
丙辰
Fire
Day
Ding Mao
丁卯
Fire
Hour
Jia Chen
甲辰
Wood
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 on the Plain” 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 2
- Earth 4
- Metal 0 · missing
- Water 0 · missing
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