Yang Wood year pillar
Wood Monkey 甲申
The Jia 甲 year stem carries Wood; the Monkey's Shen 申 branch keeps its fixed Metal coordinate.
Year pillar甲申Yang Wood 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, 乙酉 Yin Wood Rooster.
Exact date records
Wood Monkey years, 1901–2099
The complete 甲申 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
1944
- Lunar-year boundary
- 25 January 1944 → 12 February 1945
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 5 February 1944 at 06:22
- Leap month
- Month 4
Complete signature return
2004
- Lunar-year boundary
- 22 January 2004 → 8 February 2005
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2004 at 19:56
- Leap month
- Month 2
Complete signature return
2064
- Lunar-year boundary
- 17 February 2064 → 4 February 2065
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2064 at 09:14
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Wood Monkey with the current Yang Fire Horse year
No named branch relation
No named branch relation
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 Monkey elements
Calendar and pillar conventions are recorded in the methodology.