Complete signature return
1931
- Lunar-year boundary
- 17 February 1931 → 5 February 1932
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 5 February 1931 at 02:40
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Yin Metal year pillar
Metal Goat (1931, 1991, 2051)
Metal Goat years are 1931, 1991, 2051 within 1901–2099. 辛未 is pillar 8 of the 60-year cycle: Yin Metal is its year-stem element, while the Goat branch remains Earth.
Metal Goat personality
Metal lends definition to the Goat's creative sensitivity, giving a considered preference a firmer outline. Kindness in this portrait can coexist with clear limits and a willingness to protect time for something personally meaningful. The difficult edge is an exacting ideal, where the wish to make a beautiful or thoughtful result makes an imperfect beginning unusually hard to accept.
Born in 1931, 1991, 2051? Check the opening date below before choosing this variant.
辛未: pillar anatomy
- Animal branch
- 未 Wei · Yin Earth
- Year stem and fixed branch
- Earth generates Metal
- Solar month 6
- Minor Heat · Summer
- Branch compass and double-hour
- SSW · 13:00–15:00
In the Five Phases cycle, Earth feeds Metal.
Na Yin pair: 路旁土
Earth Na Yin · paired with 庚午 Yang Metal Horse in the 30 Na Yin pairs.
Exact date records
Metal Goat years, 1901–2099
The complete 辛未 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
1991
- Lunar-year boundary
- 15 February 1991 → 3 February 1992
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1991 at 16:08
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2051
- Lunar-year boundary
- 11 February 2051 → 31 January 2052
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2051 at 05:36
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Metal Goat with the current Yang Fire Horse year
2 overlapping branch relations
Six Harmonies (secret friend) 六合 · Seasonal meeting 三会
Heavenly-stem combination
辛 with 丙 · 五合
Fire controls Metal
Metal 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.