Year of the Rat
Geng Zi 庚子 · Earth rat · 24 October 2020, 22:00 local
Rat (鼠) — Resourceful, quick-witted and adaptable.
- Age
- 5 years 2,187 days lived · traditional age 7 · next birthday 2026-10-24 (as of 2026-10-20)
- Chinese zodiac
- Ratby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 9th month, 8th 庚子年九月初八 · lunar year 2020
- Moon phase
- Waxing Gibbous盈凸月 · lunar day 8
- Five elements
- Earth fate Earth on the Wall · missing wood
- Day master
- Metalelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Scorpiofrom the Sun’s position at the solar terms
- Weekday & term
- SaturdayFrost Descent
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 2020-10-24 22:00
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
Bing Xu
丙戌
Fire
Day
Geng Zi
庚子
Metal
Hour
Ding Hai
丁亥
Fire
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 0 · missing
- Fire 2
- Earth 1
- Metal 2
- Water 3
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