Year of the Dog
Wu Xu 戊戌 · Wood dog · 20 January 2019, 05:00 local
Dog (狗) — Loyal, sincere and responsible.
- Age
- 7 years 2,830 days lived · traditional age 9 · next birthday 2027-01-20 (as of 2026-10-20)
- Chinese zodiac
- Dogby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 12th month, 15th 戊戌年十二月十五 · lunar year 2018
- Moon phase
- Waxing Gibbous盈凸月 · lunar day 15
- Five elements
- Wood fate Wood on the Plain · missing metal
- Day master
- Fireelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Aquariusfrom the Sun’s position at the solar terms
- Weekday & term
- SundayMajor Cold
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 2019-01-20 05:00
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
Yi Chou
乙丑
Wood
Day
Ding Si
丁巳
Fire
Hour
Gui Mao
癸卯
Water
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 3
- Metal 0 · missing
- Water 1
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