Complete signature return
1919
- Lunar-year boundary
- 1 February 1919 → 19 February 1920
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 5 February 1919 at 04:39
- Leap month
- Month 7
Yin Earth year pillar
Earth Goat (1919, 1979, 2039, 2099)
Earth Goat years are 1919, 1979, 2039, 2099 within 1901–2099. 己未 is pillar 56 of the 60-year cycle: Yin Earth is its year-stem element, while the Goat branch remains Earth.
Earth Goat personality
Earth echoes the Goat branch's fixed element, emphasising patient care, practical creativity and the comfort of a reliable setting. Resilience is expressed through small repeated acts rather than a single show of strength. Its challenge is becoming too attached to keeping things settled, so that concern for everyone else's ease postpones a change the Goat would also benefit from naming.
Born in 1919, 1979, 2039, 2099? Check the opening date below before choosing this variant.
己未: pillar anatomy
- Animal branch
- 未 Wei · Yin Earth
- Year stem and fixed branch
- Earth meets Earth
- Solar month 6
- Minor Heat · Summer
- Branch compass and double-hour
- SSW · 13:00–15:00
Both positions carry Earth, so the element repeats rather than generating or controlling another element.
Na Yin pair: 天上火
Fire Na Yin · paired with 戊午 Yang Earth Horse in the 30 Na Yin pairs.
Exact date records
Earth Goat years, 1901–2099
The complete 己未 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
1979
- Lunar-year boundary
- 28 January 1979 → 15 February 1980
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1979 at 18:12
- Leap month
- Month 6
Complete signature return
2039
- Lunar-year boundary
- 24 January 2039 → 11 February 2040
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2039 at 07:52
- Leap month
- Month 5
Complete signature return
2099
- Lunar-year boundary
- 21 January 2099 → 8 February 2100
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 3 February 2099 at 21:09
- Leap month
- Month 2
Earth Goat with the current Yang Fire Horse year
2 overlapping branch relations
Six Harmonies (secret friend) 六合 · Seasonal meeting 三会
No named stem relation
己 with 丙
Fire generates Earth
Earth year stem with the current Fire year stem.
Same branch, five stems
Compare all five Goat elements
Calendar and pillar conventions are recorded in the methodology.