Yang Metal year pillar
Metal Monkey 庚申
The Geng 庚 year stem carries Metal; the Monkey's Shen 申 branch keeps its fixed Metal coordinate.
Year pillar庚申Yang Metal Monkey
Five Phases direction
Metal meets Metal
Both positions carry Metal, so the element repeats rather than generating or controlling another element.
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, 辛酉 Yin Metal Rooster.
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
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
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
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 Monkey elements
Calendar and pillar conventions are recorded in the methodology.