Year of the Rat
Geng Zi 庚子 · Earth rat · 6 October 2020, 18:00 local
Rat (鼠) — Resourceful, quick-witted and adaptable.
- Age
- 6 years 2,205 days lived · traditional age 7 · next birthday 2027-10-06 (as of 2026-10-20)
- Chinese zodiac
- Ratby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 8th month, 20th 庚子年八月二十 · lunar year 2020
- Moon phase
- Waning Gibbous亏凸月 · lunar day 20
- Five elements
- Earth fate Earth on the Wall
- Day master
- Waterelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Librafrom the Sun’s position at the solar terms
- Weekday & term
- TuesdayAutumn Equinox
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 2020-10-06 18:00
Four pillars
The hour you choose only changes the last pillar; the other three stay fixed for this date.
Year
Geng Zi
庚子
Metal · Rat
Month
Yi You
乙酉
Wood
Day
Ren Wu
壬午
Water
Hour
Ji You
己酉
Earth
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 1
- Earth 1
- Metal 3
- Water 2
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