Yin Wood year pillar
Wood Goat 乙未
The Yi 乙 year stem carries Wood; the Goat's Wei 未 branch keeps its fixed Earth coordinate.
Year pillar乙未Yin Wood 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, 甲午 Yang Wood Horse.
Exact date records
Wood Goat years, 1901–2099
The complete 乙未 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
1955
- Lunar-year boundary
- 24 January 1955 → 11 February 1956
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1955 at 22:17
- Leap month
- Month 3
Complete signature return
2015
- Lunar-year boundary
- 19 February 2015 → 7 February 2016
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2015 at 11:58
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2075
- Lunar-year boundary
- 15 February 2075 → 4 February 2076
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2075 at 01:30
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Wood 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
乙 with 丙
Wood generates Fire
Wood 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.