Yang Water year pillar
Water Dog 壬戌
The Ren 壬 year stem carries Water; the Dog's Xu 戌 branch keeps its fixed Earth coordinate.
Year pillar壬戌Yang Water Dog
Pillar anatomy
One stem above one branch
This Na Yin is shared with the other pillar in its two-pillar cycle pair, 癸亥 Yin Water Pig.
Exact date records
Water Dog years, 1901–2099
The complete 壬戌 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
1922
- Lunar-year boundary
- 28 January 1922 → 15 February 1923
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1922 at 22:06
- Leap month
- Month 5
Complete signature return
1982
- Lunar-year boundary
- 25 January 1982 → 12 February 1983
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1982 at 11:45
- Leap month
- Month 4
Complete signature return
2042
- Lunar-year boundary
- 22 January 2042 → 9 February 2043
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2042 at 01:12
- Leap month
- Month 2
Water Dog with the current Yang Fire Horse year
Three Harmonies
Three Harmonies 三合
Heavenly-stem clash
壬 with 丙 · 天干相冲
Water controls Fire
Water 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.