Year of the Horse
Yi Si 乙巳 · Water horse · 4 February 2026, 02:00 local
Horse (马) — Free-spirited, energetic and adventurous.
- Age
- 0 years 258 days lived · traditional age 2 · next birthday 2027-02-04 (as of 2026-10-20)
- Chinese zodiac
- Horseby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 12th month, 17th 乙巳年十二月十七 · lunar year 2025
- Moon phase
- Waning Gibbous亏凸月 · lunar day 17
- Five elements
- Water fate Water of the Milky Way · missing water
- Day master
- Earthelement 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 2026-02-04 02:00
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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: Horse by the solar-term rule used in divination, Snake 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
Yi Si
乙巳
Wood · Snake
Month
Ji Chou
己丑
Earth
Day
Ji You
己酉
Earth
Hour
Yi Chou
乙丑
Wood
Element balance of the eight characters
Two different “elements” are quoted for a birth year. The Water fate above is the traditional nayin (纳音) of the year pillar, which is what “Water of the Milky Way” 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 2
- Fire 1
- Earth 4
- Metal 1
- Water 0 · missing
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