Yin Metal year pillar
Metal Rabbit 辛卯
The Xin 辛 year stem carries Metal; the Rabbit's Mao 卯 branch keeps its fixed Wood coordinate.
Year pillar辛卯Yin Metal Rabbit
Pillar anatomy
One stem above one branch
Earthly branch
Mao branch · Yin Wood
- Solar coordinate
- Month 2, from Awakening of Insects
- Season · direction
- Spring · E
- Double-hour
- 05:00–07:00
Hidden stems inside the Mao branch
- 乙yǐWoodprimary
This Na Yin is shared with the other pillar in its two-pillar cycle pair, 庚寅 Yang Metal Tiger.
Exact date records
Metal Rabbit years, 1901–2099
The complete 辛卯 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
1951
- Lunar-year boundary
- 6 February 1951 → 26 January 1952
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1951 at 23:13
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2011
- Lunar-year boundary
- 3 February 2011 → 22 January 2012
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2011 at 12:32
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2071
- Lunar-year boundary
- 31 January 2071 → 18 February 2072
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2071 at 02:10
- Leap month
- Month 8
Metal Rabbit with the current Yang Fire Horse year
Destruction
Destruction 六破
Heavenly-stem combination
辛 with 丙 · 五合
Fire controls Metal
Metal year stem with the current Fire year stem.
Same branch, five stems
Compare all five Rabbit elements
Calendar and pillar conventions are recorded in the methodology.