Year of the Rat
Ji Hai 己亥 · Earth rat · 4 February 2020, 07:00 local
Rat (鼠) — Resourceful, quick-witted and adaptable.
- Age
- 6 years 2,450 days lived · traditional age 7 · next birthday 2027-02-04 (as of 2026-10-20)
- Chinese zodiac
- Ratby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- Zhengyue (1st month), 11th 庚子年正月十一 · lunar year 2020
- Moon phase
- Waxing Gibbous盈凸月 · lunar day 11
- Five elements
- Earth fate Earth on the Wall · missing metal
- Day master
- Fireelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Aquariusfrom the Sun’s position at the solar terms
- Weekday & term
- TuesdayStart of Spring
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 2020-02-04 07:00
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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: Rat by the solar-term rule used in divination, Pig 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 Hai
己亥
Earth · Pig
Month
Ding Chou
丁丑
Fire
Day
Ding Chou
丁丑
Fire
Hour
Jia Chen
甲辰
Wood
Element balance of the eight characters
Two different “elements” are quoted for a birth year. The Earth fate above is the traditional nayin (纳音) of the year pillar, which is what “Earth on the Wall” 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 2
- Earth 4
- Metal 0 · missing
- Water 1
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Hour of birth changes the hour pillar, and after 23:00 it can move the day pillar too.
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