Year of the Loong
Gui Mao 癸卯 · Fire loong · 4 February 2024, 04:00 local
Loong (龙) — Charismatic, confident and energetic.
- Age
- 2 years 989 days lived · traditional age 4 · next birthday 2027-02-04 (as of 2026-10-20)
- Chinese zodiac
- Loongby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 12th month, 25th 癸卯年十二月廿五 · lunar year 2023
- Moon phase
- Waning Crescent残月 · lunar day 25
- Five elements
- Fire fate Fire of the Lantern · missing fire, metal
- Day master
- Earthelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Aquariusfrom the Sun’s position at the solar terms
- Weekday & term
- SundayStart of Spring
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 2024-02-04 04:00
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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: Loong by the solar-term rule used in divination, Rabbit 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
Gui Mao
癸卯
Water · Rabbit
Month
Yi Chou
乙丑
Wood
Day
Wu Xu
戊戌
Earth
Hour
Jia Yin
甲寅
Wood
Element balance of the eight characters
Two different “elements” are quoted for a birth year. The Fire fate above is the traditional nayin (纳音) of the year pillar, which is what “Fire of the Lantern” 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 4
- Fire 0 · missing
- Earth 3
- Metal 0 · missing
- Water 1
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