Yin Water year pillar
Water Ox 癸丑
The Gui 癸 year stem carries Water; the Ox's Chou 丑 branch keeps its fixed Earth coordinate.
Year pillar癸丑Yin Water Ox
Pillar anatomy
One stem above one branch
Earthly branch
Chou branch · Yin Earth
- Solar coordinate
- Month 12, from Minor Cold
- Season · direction
- Winter · NNE
- Double-hour
- 01:00–03:00
This Na Yin is shared with the other pillar in its two-pillar cycle pair, 壬子 Yang Water Rat.
Exact date records
Water Ox years, 1901–2099
The complete 癸丑 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
1913
- Lunar-year boundary
- 6 February 1913 → 25 January 1914
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1913 at 17:42
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
1973
- Lunar-year boundary
- 3 February 1973 → 22 January 1974
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1973 at 07:04
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2033
- Lunar-year boundary
- 31 January 2033 → 18 February 2034
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 3 February 2033 at 20:41
- Leap month
- Month 11
Complete signature return
2093
- Lunar-year boundary
- 27 January 2093 → 14 February 2094
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 3 February 2093 at 10:18
- Leap month
- Month 6
Water Ox with the current Yang Fire Horse year
Harm
Harm 六害
No named stem relation
癸 with 丙
Water controls Fire
Water 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.