Yang Wood year pillar
Wood Horse 甲午
The Jia 甲 year stem carries Wood; the Horse's Wu 午 branch keeps its fixed Fire coordinate.
Year pillar甲午Yang Wood 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, 乙未 Yin Wood Goat.
Exact date records
Wood Horse years, 1901–2099
The complete 甲午 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
1954
- Lunar-year boundary
- 3 February 1954 → 23 January 1955
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1954 at 16:30
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2014
- Lunar-year boundary
- 31 January 2014 → 18 February 2015
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2014 at 06:03
- Leap month
- Month 9
Complete signature return
2074
- Lunar-year boundary
- 27 January 2074 → 14 February 2075
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 3 February 2074 at 19:41
- Leap month
- Month 6
Wood Horse with the current Yang Fire Horse year
2 overlapping branch relations
Same sign · Self-punishment 自刑
No named stem relation
甲 with 丙
Wood generates Fire
Wood 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.