Yin Water year pillar
Water Rabbit 癸卯
The Gui 癸 year stem carries Water; the Rabbit's Mao 卯 branch keeps its fixed Wood coordinate.
Year pillar癸卯Yin Water 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, 壬寅 Yang Water Tiger.
Exact date records
Water Rabbit years, 1901–2099
The complete 癸卯 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
1903
- Lunar-year boundary
- 29 January 1903 → 15 February 1904
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 5 February 1903 at 07:31
- Leap month
- Month 5
Complete signature return
1963
- Lunar-year boundary
- 25 January 1963 → 12 February 1964
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1963 at 21:07
- Leap month
- Month 4
Complete signature return
2023
- Lunar-year boundary
- 22 January 2023 → 9 February 2024
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2023 at 10:42
- Leap month
- Month 2
Complete signature return
2083
- Lunar-year boundary
- 17 February 2083 → 5 February 2084
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 3 February 2083 at 23:58
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Water Rabbit with the current Yang Fire Horse year
Destruction
Destruction 六破
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 Rabbit elements
Calendar and pillar conventions are recorded in the methodology.