Yang Water year pillar
Water Rat 壬子
The Ren 壬 year stem carries Water; the Rat's Zi 子 branch keeps its fixed Water coordinate.
Year pillar壬子Yang Water Rat
Five Phases direction
Water meets Water
Both positions carry Water, so the element repeats rather than generating or controlling another element.
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, 癸丑 Yin Water Ox.
Exact date records
Water Rat years, 1901–2099
The complete 壬子 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
1912
- Lunar-year boundary
- 18 February 1912 → 5 February 1913
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 5 February 1912 at 11:53
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
1972
- Lunar-year boundary
- 15 February 1972 → 2 February 1973
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 5 February 1972 at 01:20
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2032
- Lunar-year boundary
- 11 February 2032 → 30 January 2033
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2032 at 14:48
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2092
- Lunar-year boundary
- 7 February 2092 → 26 January 2093
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2092 at 04:28
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Water Rat with the current Yang Fire Horse year
Clash
Clash 六冲
Heavenly-stem clash
壬 with 丙 · 天干相冲
Water controls Fire
Water 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.