Yang Earth year pillar
Earth Dog 戊戌
The Wu 戊 year stem carries Earth; the Dog's Xu 戌 branch keeps its fixed Earth coordinate.
Year pillar戊戌Yang Earth Dog
Five Phases direction
Earth meets Earth
Both positions carry Earth, so the element repeats rather than generating or controlling another element.
Pillar anatomy
One stem above one branch
This Na Yin is shared with the other pillar in its two-pillar cycle pair, 己亥 Yin Earth Pig.
Exact date records
Earth Dog years, 1901–2099
The complete 戊戌 pillar returns every sixty years. Each record below keeps the same animal, stem element, and polarity, while its exact lunar-year boundary and leap-month pattern change.
Complete signature return
1958
- Lunar-year boundary
- 18 February 1958 → 7 February 1959
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1958 at 15:49
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2018
- Lunar-year boundary
- 16 February 2018 → 4 February 2019
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2018 at 05:28
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2078
- Lunar-year boundary
- 12 February 2078 → 1 February 2079
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 3 February 2078 at 18:57
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Earth Dog with the current Yang Fire Horse year
Three Harmonies
Three Harmonies 三合
No named stem relation
戊 with 丙
Fire generates Earth
Earth year stem with the current Fire year stem.
Same branch, five stems
Compare all five Dog elements
Calendar and pillar conventions are recorded in the methodology.