Yang Earth year pillar
Earth Horse 戊午
The Wu 戊 year stem carries Earth; the Horse's Wu 午 branch keeps its fixed Fire coordinate.
Year pillar戊午Yang Earth Horse
Pillar anatomy
One stem above one branch
Earthly branch
Wu branch · Yang Fire
- Solar coordinate
- Month 5, from Grain in Ear
- Season · direction
- Summer · S
- Double-hour
- 11:00–13:00
This Na Yin is shared with the other pillar in its two-pillar cycle pair, 己未 Yin Earth Goat.
Exact date records
Earth Horse years, 1901–2099
The complete 戊午 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
1918
- Lunar-year boundary
- 11 February 1918 → 31 January 1919
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1918 at 22:53
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
1978
- Lunar-year boundary
- 7 February 1978 → 27 January 1979
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1978 at 12:26
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2038
- Lunar-year boundary
- 4 February 2038 → 23 January 2039
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2038 at 02:03
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2098
- Lunar-year boundary
- 1 February 2098 → 20 January 2099
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 3 February 2098 at 15:29
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Earth Horse with the current Yang Fire Horse year
2 overlapping branch relations
Same sign · Self-punishment 自刑
No named stem relation
戊 with 丙
Fire generates Earth
Earth year stem with the current Fire year stem.
Same branch, five stems
Compare all five Horse elements
Calendar and pillar conventions are recorded in the methodology.