Year of the Ox
Geng Zi 庚子 · Earth ox · 3 February 2021, 08:00 local
Ox (牛) — Diligent, dependable and patient.
- Age
- 5 years 2,085 days lived · traditional age 7 · next birthday 2027-02-03 (as of 2026-10-20)
- Chinese zodiac
- Oxby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 12th month, 22nd 庚子年十二月廿二 · lunar year 2020
- Moon phase
- Waning Gibbous亏凸月 · lunar day 22
- Five elements
- Earth fate Earth on the Wall
- Day master
- Waterelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Aquariusfrom the Sun’s position at the solar terms
- Weekday & term
- WednesdayStart of Spring
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 2021-02-03 08:00
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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: Ox by the solar-term rule used in divination, Rat 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
Geng Zi
庚子
Metal · Rat
Month
Ji Chou
己丑
Earth
Day
Ren Wu
壬午
Water
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 1
- Earth 3
- Metal 1
- Water 2
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