Complete signature return
1960
- Lunar-year boundary
- 28 January 1960 → 14 February 1961
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 5 February 1960 at 03:23
- Leap month
- Month 6
Yang Metal year pillar
Metal Rat (1960, 2020, 2080)
Metal Rat years are 1960, 2020, 2080 within 1901–2099. 庚子 is pillar 37 of the 60-year cycle: Yang Metal is its year-stem element, while the Rat branch remains Water.
Metal Rat personality
Metal concentrates the Rat's quick thinking around a clear purpose, giving its many observations a sharper order of importance. Resourcefulness here is paired with resolve: fewer possibilities are pursued, but each receives closer attention. The challenge is allowing another person to revise the plan without treating that revision as a loss of control over something carefully assembled.
Born in 1960, 2020, 2080? Check the opening date below before choosing this variant.
庚子: pillar anatomy
- Animal branch
- 子 Zi · Yang Water
- Year stem and fixed branch
- Metal generates 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, Metal feeds Water.
Na Yin pair: 壁上土
Earth Na Yin · paired with 辛丑 Yin Metal Ox in the 30 Na Yin pairs.
Exact date records
Metal Rat years, 1901–2099
The complete 庚子 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
2020
- Lunar-year boundary
- 25 January 2020 → 11 February 2021
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2020 at 17:03
- Leap month
- Month 4
Complete signature return
2080
- Lunar-year boundary
- 22 January 2080 → 8 February 2081
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2080 at 06:27
- Leap month
- Month 3
Metal Rat with the current Yang Fire Horse year
Clash
Clash 六冲
No named stem relation
庚 with 丙
Fire controls Metal
Metal 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.