Yang Water year pillar
Water Horse 壬午
The Ren 壬 year stem carries Water; the Horse's Wu 午 branch keeps its fixed Fire coordinate.
Year pillar壬午Yang Water 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, 癸未 Yin Water Goat.
Exact date records
Water Horse years, 1901–2099
The complete 壬午 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
1942
- Lunar-year boundary
- 15 February 1942 → 4 February 1943
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1942 at 18:48
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2002
- Lunar-year boundary
- 12 February 2002 → 31 January 2003
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2002 at 08:24
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2062
- Lunar-year boundary
- 9 February 2062 → 28 January 2063
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 3 February 2062 at 21:47
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Water Horse with the current Yang Fire Horse year
2 overlapping branch relations
Same sign · Self-punishment 自刑
Heavenly-stem clash
壬 with 丙 · 天干相冲
Water controls Fire
Water 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.