Yin Water year pillar
Water Goat 癸未
The Gui 癸 year stem carries Water; the Goat's Wei 未 branch keeps its fixed Earth coordinate.
Year pillar癸未Yin Water 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, 壬午 Yang Water Horse.
Exact date records
Water Goat years, 1901–2099
The complete 癸未 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
1943
- Lunar-year boundary
- 5 February 1943 → 24 January 1944
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 5 February 1943 at 00:40
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2003
- Lunar-year boundary
- 1 February 2003 → 21 January 2004
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2003 at 14:05
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2063
- Lunar-year boundary
- 29 January 2063 → 16 February 2064
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2063 at 03:31
- Leap month
- Month 7
Water 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
癸 with 丙
Water controls Fire
Water 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.