Complete signature return
1923
- Lunar-year boundary
- 16 February 1923 → 4 February 1924
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 5 February 1923 at 04:00
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Yin Water year pillar
Water Pig (1923, 1983, 2043)
Water Pig years are 1923, 1983, 2043 within 1901–2099. 癸亥 is pillar 60 of the 60-year cycle: Yin Water is its year-stem element, while the Pig branch remains Water.
Water Pig personality
Water repeats the Pig branch's fixed element, placing receptiveness, easy rapport and a willingness to understand another person's experience at the centre of the portrait. Generosity is expressed through attention as much as through sharing things. The challenge is excessive trust, where an accommodating response arrives before there has been enough time to decide whether a request is reasonable.
Born in 1923, 1983, 2043? Check the opening date below before choosing this variant.
癸亥: pillar anatomy
- Animal branch
- 亥 Hai · Yin Water
- Year stem and fixed branch
- Water meets Water
- Solar month 10
- Start of Winter · Winter
- Branch compass and double-hour
- NNW · 21:00–23:00
Both positions carry Water, so the element repeats rather than generating or controlling another element.
Na Yin pair: 大海水
Water Na Yin · paired with 壬戌 Yang Water Dog in the 30 Na Yin pairs.
Exact date records
Water Pig years, 1901–2099
The complete 癸亥 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
1983
- Lunar-year boundary
- 13 February 1983 → 1 February 1984
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1983 at 17:39
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2043
- Lunar-year boundary
- 10 February 2043 → 29 January 2044
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2043 at 06:58
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Water Pig with the current Yang Fire Horse year
No named branch relation
No named branch relation
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 Pig elements
Calendar and pillar conventions are recorded in the methodology.