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
Yin Water year pillar
Water Rabbit (1903, 1963, 2023, 2083)
Water Rabbit years are 1903, 1963, 2023, 2083 within 1901–2099. 癸卯 is pillar 40 of the 60-year cycle: Yin Water is its year-stem element, while the Rabbit branch remains Wood.
Water Rabbit personality
Water brings greater receptiveness to the Rabbit's already observant character, emphasising subtle cues and the ability to adapt a conversation without making a spectacle of it. This portrait favours a thoughtful response over an immediate answer. Its counterpoint is uncertainty: noticing several possible meanings in a remark can make it difficult to ask the simple question that would clarify it.
Born in 1903, 1963, 2023, 2083? Check the opening date below before choosing this variant.
癸卯: pillar anatomy
- Animal branch
- 卯 Mao · Yin Wood
- Year stem and fixed branch
- Water generates Wood
- Solar month 2
- Awakening of Insects · Spring
- Branch compass and double-hour
- E · 05:00–07:00
- Hidden stems
- 乙 yǐ Wood (primary)
In the Five Phases cycle, Water feeds Wood.
Na Yin pair: 金箔金
Metal Na Yin · paired with 壬寅 Yang Water Tiger in the 30 Na Yin pairs.
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
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.