Yang Earth year pillar
Earth Rat 戊子
The Wu 戊 year stem carries Earth; the Rat's Zi 子 branch keeps its fixed Water coordinate.
Year pillar戊子Yang Earth Rat
Pillar anatomy
One stem above one branch
Earthly branch
Zi branch · Yang Water
- Solar coordinate
- Month 11, from Major Snow
- Season · direction
- Winter · N
- Double-hour
- 23:00–01:00
Hidden stems inside the Zi branch
- 癸guǐWaterprimary
This Na Yin is shared with the other pillar in its two-pillar cycle pair, 己丑 Yin Earth Ox.
Exact date records
Earth Rat years, 1901–2099
The complete 戊子 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
1948
- Lunar-year boundary
- 10 February 1948 → 28 January 1949
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 5 February 1948 at 05:42
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2008
- Lunar-year boundary
- 7 February 2008 → 25 January 2009
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2008 at 19:00
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2068
- Lunar-year boundary
- 3 February 2068 → 22 January 2069
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2068 at 08:29
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Earth Rat with the current Yang Fire Horse year
Clash
Clash 六冲
No named stem relation
戊 with 丙
Fire generates Earth
Earth year stem with the current Fire year stem.
Same branch, five stems
Compare all five Rat elements
Calendar and pillar conventions are recorded in the methodology.