Yang Metal year pillar
Metal Dog 庚戌
The Geng 庚 year stem carries Metal; the Dog's Xu 戌 branch keeps its fixed Earth coordinate.
Year pillar庚戌Yang Metal Dog
Pillar anatomy
One stem above one branch
This Na Yin is shared with the other pillar in its two-pillar cycle pair, 辛亥 Yin Metal Pig.
Exact date records
Metal Dog years, 1901–2099
The complete 庚戌 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
1910
- Lunar-year boundary
- 10 February 1910 → 29 January 1911
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 5 February 1910 at 00:27
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
1970
- Lunar-year boundary
- 6 February 1970 → 26 January 1971
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1970 at 13:45
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2030
- Lunar-year boundary
- 3 February 2030 → 22 January 2031
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2030 at 03:08
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2090
- Lunar-year boundary
- 30 January 2090 → 17 February 2091
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 3 February 2090 at 16:42
- Leap month
- Month 8
Metal Dog with the current Yang Fire Horse year
Three Harmonies
Three Harmonies 三合
Heavenly-stem clash
庚 with 丙 · 天干相冲
Fire controls Metal
Metal 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.