Complete signature return
1920
- Lunar-year boundary
- 20 February 1920 → 7 February 1921
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 5 February 1920 at 10:26
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Yang Metal year pillar
Metal Monkey (1920, 1980, 2040)
Metal Monkey years are 1920, 1980, 2040 within 1901–2099. 庚申 is pillar 57 of the 60-year cycle: Yang Metal is its year-stem element, while the Monkey branch remains Metal.
Metal Monkey personality
Metal reinforces the Monkey branch's fixed element, concentrating ingenuity into a sharper, more determined form. The emphasis is on mastering a chosen approach and recognising exactly where a problem can be changed. Its difficult edge is turning every exchange into a test of cleverness, where proving a point becomes easier than leaving room for another person's different but workable solution.
Born in 1920, 1980, 2040? Check the opening date below before choosing this variant.
庚申: pillar anatomy
- Animal branch
- 申 Shen · Yang Metal
- Year stem and fixed branch
- Metal meets Metal
- Solar month 7
- Start of Autumn · Autumn
- Branch compass and double-hour
- WSW · 15:00–17:00
Both positions carry Metal, so the element repeats rather than generating or controlling another element.
Na Yin pair: 石榴木
Wood Na Yin · paired with 辛酉 Yin Metal Rooster in the 30 Na Yin pairs.
Exact date records
Metal Monkey years, 1901–2099
The complete 庚申 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
1980
- Lunar-year boundary
- 16 February 1980 → 4 February 1981
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 5 February 1980 at 00:09
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2040
- Lunar-year boundary
- 12 February 2040 → 31 January 2041
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2040 at 13:39
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Metal Monkey with the current Yang Fire Horse year
No named branch relation
No named branch relation
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 Monkey elements
Calendar and pillar conventions are recorded in the methodology.