Year of the Rat
Geng Zi 庚子 · Earth rat · 6 November 2020, 00:00 local
Rat (鼠) — Resourceful, quick-witted and adaptable.
- Age
- 5 years 2,174 days lived · traditional age 7 · next birthday 2026-11-06 (as of 2026-10-20)
- Chinese zodiac
- Ratby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 9th month, 21st 庚子年九月廿一 · lunar year 2020
- Moon phase
- Waning Gibbous亏凸月 · lunar day 21
- Five elements
- Earth fate Earth on the Wall · missing wood
- Day master
- Waterelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Scorpiofrom the Sun’s position at the solar terms
- Weekday & term
- FridayFrost Descent
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 2020-11-06 00:00
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
Gui Chou
癸丑
Water
Hour
Ren Zi
壬子
Water
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 1
- Earth 2
- Metal 1
- Water 4
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