Yang Wood year pillar
Wood Rat 甲子
The Jia 甲 year stem carries Wood; the Rat's Zi 子 branch keeps its fixed Water coordinate.
Year pillar甲子Yang Wood 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, 乙丑 Yin Wood Ox.
Exact date records
Wood Rat years, 1901–2099
The complete 甲子 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
1924
- Lunar-year boundary
- 5 February 1924 → 23 January 1925
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 5 February 1924 at 09:49
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
1984
- Lunar-year boundary
- 2 February 1984 → 19 February 1985
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1984 at 23:18
- Leap month
- Month 10
Complete signature return
2044
- Lunar-year boundary
- 30 January 2044 → 16 February 2045
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2044 at 12:44
- Leap month
- Month 7
Wood Rat with the current Yang Fire Horse year
Clash
Clash 六冲
No named stem relation
甲 with 丙
Wood generates Fire
Wood 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.