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
Yang Earth year pillar
Earth Rat (1948, 2008, 2068)
Earth Rat years are 1948, 2008, 2068 within 1901–2099. 戊子 is pillar 25 of the 60-year cycle: Yang Earth is its year-stem element, while the Rat branch remains Water.
Earth Rat personality
An Earth Rat reading centres on making ingenuity dependable: the clever shortcut becomes a repeatable arrangement rather than a one-off escape. Earth adds patience and a preference for practical preparation to the animal's alertness. This combination's difficult edge is excessive safeguarding, where the wish to protect a workable routine leaves too little room for the Rat's natural adaptability.
Born in 1948, 2008, 2068? Check the opening date below before choosing this variant.
戊子: pillar anatomy
- Animal branch
- 子 Zi · Yang Water
- Year stem and fixed branch
- Earth controls Water
- Solar month 11
- Major Snow · Winter
- Branch compass and double-hour
- N · 23:00–01:00
- Hidden stems
- 癸 guǐ Water (primary)
In the Five Phases cycle, Earth regulates Water.
Na Yin pair: 霹雳火
Fire Na Yin · paired with 己丑 Yin Earth Ox in the 30 Na Yin pairs.
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
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.