Yang Metal year pillar
Metal Horse 庚午
The Geng 庚 year stem carries Metal; the Horse's Wu 午 branch keeps its fixed Fire coordinate.
Year pillar庚午Yang Metal 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, 辛未 Yin Metal Goat.
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
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
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
Heavenly-stem clash
庚 with 丙 · 天干相冲
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.
