Yang Earth year pillar
Earth Dragon 戊辰
The Wu 戊 year stem carries Earth; the Dragon's Chen 辰 branch keeps its fixed Earth coordinate.
Year pillar戊辰Yang Earth Dragon
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
Earthly branch
Chen branch · Yang Earth
- Solar coordinate
- Month 3, from Pure Brightness
- Season · direction
- Spring · ESE
- Double-hour
- 07:00–09:00
This Na Yin is shared with the other pillar in its two-pillar cycle pair, 己巳 Yin Earth Snake.
Exact date records
Earth Dragon years, 1901–2099
The complete 戊辰 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
1928
- Lunar-year boundary
- 23 January 1928 → 9 February 1929
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 5 February 1928 at 09:16
- Leap month
- Month 2
Complete signature return
1988
- Lunar-year boundary
- 17 February 1988 → 5 February 1989
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1988 at 22:42
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2048
- Lunar-year boundary
- 14 February 2048 → 1 February 2049
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2048 at 12:04
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Earth Dragon with the current Yang Fire Horse year
No named branch relation
No named branch relation
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 Dragon elements
Calendar and pillar conventions are recorded in the methodology.