Year of the Rat
Geng Zi 庚子 · Earth rat · 21 January 2021, 08:00 local
Rat (鼠) — Resourceful, quick-witted and adaptable.
- Age
- 5 years 2,098 days lived · traditional age 7 · next birthday 2027-01-21 (as of 2026-10-20)
- Chinese zodiac
- Ratby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 12th month, 9th 庚子年十二月初九 · lunar year 2020
- Moon phase
- First Quarter上弦月 · lunar day 9
- Five elements
- Earth fate Earth on the Wall · missing wood
- Day master
- Earthelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Aquariusfrom the Sun’s position at the solar terms
- Weekday & term
- ThursdayMajor Cold
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 2021-01-21 08:00
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
Ji Chou
己丑
Earth
Day
Ji Si
己巳
Earth
Hour
Wu Chen
戊辰
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 0 · missing
- Fire 1
- Earth 5
- Metal 1
- Water 1
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