Yang Water year pillar
Water Dragon 壬辰
The Ren 壬 year stem carries Water; the Dragon's Chen 辰 branch keeps its fixed Earth coordinate.
Year pillar壬辰Yang Water Dragon
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, 癸巳 Yin Water Snake.
Exact date records
Water Dragon years, 1901–2099
The complete 壬辰 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
1952
- Lunar-year boundary
- 27 January 1952 → 13 February 1953
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 5 February 1952 at 04:52
- Leap month
- Month 5
Complete signature return
2012
- Lunar-year boundary
- 23 January 2012 → 9 February 2013
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2012 at 18:22
- Leap month
- Month 4
Complete signature return
2072
- Lunar-year boundary
- 19 February 2072 → 6 February 2073
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2072 at 07:57
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Water Dragon with the current Yang Fire Horse year
No named branch relation
No named branch relation
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 Dragon elements
Calendar and pillar conventions are recorded in the methodology.