Yin Earth year pillar
Earth Pig 己亥
The Ji 己 year stem carries Earth; the Pig's Hai 亥 branch keeps its fixed Water coordinate.
Year pillar己亥Yin Earth Pig
Pillar anatomy
One stem above one branch
Earthly branch
Hai branch · Yin Water
- Solar coordinate
- Month 10, from Start of Winter
- Season · direction
- Winter · NNW
- Double-hour
- 21:00–23:00
This Na Yin is shared with the other pillar in its two-pillar cycle pair, 戊戌 Yang Earth Dog.
Exact date records
Earth Pig years, 1901–2099
The complete 己亥 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
1959
- Lunar-year boundary
- 8 February 1959 → 27 January 1960
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1959 at 21:42
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2019
- Lunar-year boundary
- 5 February 2019 → 24 January 2020
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2019 at 11:14
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2079
- Lunar-year boundary
- 2 February 2079 → 21 January 2080
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2079 at 00:43
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Earth Pig with the current Yang Fire Horse year
No named branch relation
No named branch relation
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 Pig elements
Calendar and pillar conventions are recorded in the methodology.