Yang Water year pillar
Water Monkey 壬申
The Ren 壬 year stem carries Water; the Monkey's Shen 申 branch keeps its fixed Metal coordinate.
Year pillar壬申Yang Water 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, 癸酉 Yin Water Rooster.
Exact date records
Water Monkey years, 1901–2099
The complete 壬申 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
1932
- Lunar-year boundary
- 6 February 1932 → 25 January 1933
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 5 February 1932 at 08:29
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
1992
- Lunar-year boundary
- 4 February 1992 → 22 January 1993
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1992 at 21:48
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2052
- Lunar-year boundary
- 1 February 2052 → 18 February 2053
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2052 at 11:23
- Leap month
- Month 8
Water Monkey with the current Yang Fire Horse year
No named branch relation
No named branch relation
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 Monkey elements
Calendar and pillar conventions are recorded in the methodology.