Complete signature return
1930
- Lunar-year boundary
- 30 January 1930 → 16 February 1931
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1930 at 20:51
- Leap month
- Month 6
Yang Metal year pillar
Metal Horse (1930, 1990, 2050)
Metal Horse years are 1930, 1990, 2050 within 1901–2099. 庚午 is pillar 7 of the 60-year cycle: Yang Metal is its year-stem element, while the Horse branch remains Fire.
Metal Horse personality
Metal focuses the Horse's independent streak around a clearly chosen direction, adding resolve to its readiness to move. Persuasion becomes more direct, with strong boundaries around how much freedom the Horse wants to retain. The challenge is recognising when determination has become insistence, especially if a companion needs a different pace rather than a different destination.
Born in 1930, 1990, 2050? Check the opening date below before choosing this variant.
庚午: pillar anatomy
- Animal branch
- 午 Wu · Yang Fire
- Year stem and fixed branch
- Fire controls Metal
- Solar month 5
- Grain in Ear · Summer
- Branch compass and double-hour
- S · 11:00–13:00
In the Five Phases cycle, Fire regulates Metal.
Na Yin pair: 路旁土
Earth Na Yin · paired with 辛未 Yin Metal Goat in the 30 Na Yin pairs.
Exact date records
Metal Horse years, 1901–2099
The complete 庚午 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
1990
- Lunar-year boundary
- 27 January 1990 → 14 February 1991
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1990 at 10:14
- Leap month
- Month 5
Complete signature return
2050
- Lunar-year boundary
- 23 January 2050 → 10 February 2051
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 3 February 2050 at 23:43
- Leap month
- Month 3
Metal Horse with the current Yang Fire Horse year
2 overlapping branch relations
Same sign · Self-punishment 自刑
No named stem relation
庚 with 丙
Fire controls Metal
Metal 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.