Yang Earth year pillar
Earth Monkey 戊申
The Wu 戊 year stem carries Earth; the Monkey's Shen 申 branch keeps its fixed Metal coordinate.
Year pillar戊申Yang Earth Monkey
Pillar anatomy
One stem above one branch
Earthly branch
Shen branch · Yang Metal
- Solar coordinate
- Month 7, from Start of Autumn
- Season · direction
- Autumn · WSW
- Double-hour
- 15:00–17:00
This Na Yin is shared with the other pillar in its two-pillar cycle pair, 己酉 Yin Earth Rooster.
Exact date records
Earth Monkey years, 1901–2099
The complete 戊申 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
1908
- Lunar-year boundary
- 2 February 1908 → 21 January 1909
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 5 February 1908 at 12:47
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
1968
- Lunar-year boundary
- 30 January 1968 → 16 February 1969
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 5 February 1968 at 02:07
- Leap month
- Month 7
Complete signature return
2028
- Lunar-year boundary
- 26 January 2028 → 12 February 2029
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2028 at 15:31
- Leap month
- Month 5
Complete signature return
2088
- Lunar-year boundary
- 24 January 2088 → 9 February 2089
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2088 at 04:58
- Leap month
- Month 4
Earth Monkey with the current Yang Fire Horse year
No named branch relation
No named branch relation
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 Monkey elements
Calendar and pillar conventions are recorded in the methodology.