Yin Water year pillar
Water Pig 癸亥
The Gui 癸 year stem carries Water; the Pig's Hai 亥 branch keeps its fixed Water coordinate.
Year pillar癸亥Yin Water Pig
Five Phases direction
Water meets Water
Both positions carry Water, so the element repeats rather than generating or controlling another element.
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, 壬戌 Yang Water Dog.
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
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
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.