Complete signature return
1949
- Lunar-year boundary
- 29 January 1949 → 16 February 1950
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1949 at 11:22
- Leap month
- Month 7
Yin Earth year pillar
Earth Ox (1949, 2009, 2069)
Earth Ox years are 1949, 2009, 2069 within 1901–2099. 己丑 is pillar 26 of the 60-year cycle: Yin Earth is its year-stem element, while the Ox branch remains Earth.
Earth Ox personality
Earth reinforces the Ox branch's fixed element and puts the strongest emphasis on constancy, practical care and well-established routines. This portrait values a promise that can be kept repeatedly over a dramatic gesture made once. The challenge is distinguishing stability from immobility, allowing a dependable structure to be repaired or replaced when it no longer serves the people using it.
Born in 1949, 2009, 2069? Check the opening date below before choosing this variant.
己丑: pillar anatomy
- Animal branch
- 丑 Chou · Yin Earth
- Year stem and fixed branch
- Earth meets Earth
- Solar month 12
- Minor Cold · Winter
- Branch compass and double-hour
- NNE · 01:00–03:00
Both positions carry Earth, so the element repeats rather than generating or controlling another element.
Na Yin pair: 霹雳火
Fire Na Yin · paired with 戊子 Yang Earth Rat in the 30 Na Yin pairs.
Exact date records
Earth Ox years, 1901–2099
The complete 己丑 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
2009
- Lunar-year boundary
- 26 January 2009 → 13 February 2010
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2009 at 00:49
- Leap month
- Month 5
Complete signature return
2069
- Lunar-year boundary
- 23 January 2069 → 10 February 2070
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 3 February 2069 at 14:20
- Leap month
- Month 4
Earth Ox with the current Yang Fire Horse year
Harm
Harm 六害
No named stem relation
己 with 丙
Fire generates Earth
Earth year stem with the current Fire year stem.
Same branch, five stems
Compare all five Ox elements
Calendar and pillar conventions are recorded in the methodology.