Year of the Snake
Jia Chen 甲辰 · Fire snake · 3 February 2025, 03:00 local
Snake (蛇) — Wise, intuitive and purposeful.
- Age
- 1 year 624 days lived · traditional age 2 · next birthday 2027-02-03 (as of 2026-10-20)
- Chinese zodiac
- Snakeby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- Zhengyue (1st month), 6th 乙巳年正月初六 · lunar year 2025
- Moon phase
- Waxing Crescent蛾眉月 · lunar day 6
- Five elements
- Fire fate Fire of the Lantern · missing metal
- Day master
- Waterelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Aquariusfrom the Sun’s position at the solar terms
- Weekday & term
- MondayStart of Spring
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 2025-02-03 03:00
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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: Snake by the solar-term rule used in divination, Loong 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
Jia Chen
甲辰
Wood · Loong
Month
Ding Chou
丁丑
Fire
Day
Gui Mao
癸卯
Water
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 1
- Earth 2
- Metal 0 · missing
- Water 1
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