Yin Metal year pillar
Metal Goat 辛未
The Xin 辛 year stem carries Metal; the Goat's Wei 未 branch keeps its fixed Earth coordinate.
Year pillar辛未Yin Metal Goat
Pillar anatomy
One stem above one branch
Earthly branch
Wei branch · Yin Earth
- Solar coordinate
- Month 6, from Minor Heat
- Season · direction
- Summer · SSW
- Double-hour
- 13:00–15:00
This Na Yin is shared with the other pillar in its two-pillar cycle pair, 庚午 Yang Metal Horse.
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
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
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.