Yin Earth year pillar
Earth Rooster 己酉
The Ji 己 year stem carries Earth; the Rooster's You 酉 branch keeps its fixed Metal coordinate.
Year pillar己酉Yin Earth Rooster
Pillar anatomy
One stem above one branch
Earthly branch
You branch · Yin Metal
Hidden stems inside the You branch
- 辛xīnMetalprimary
This Na Yin is shared with the other pillar in its two-pillar cycle pair, 戊申 Yang Earth Monkey.
Exact date records
Earth Rooster years, 1901–2099
The complete 己酉 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
1909
- Lunar-year boundary
- 22 January 1909 → 9 February 1910
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1909 at 18:32
- Leap month
- Month 2
Complete signature return
1969
- Lunar-year boundary
- 17 February 1969 → 5 February 1970
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1969 at 07:58
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2029
- Lunar-year boundary
- 13 February 2029 → 2 February 2030
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 3 February 2029 at 21:20
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2089
- Lunar-year boundary
- 10 February 2089 → 29 January 2090
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 3 February 2089 at 10:54
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Earth Rooster with the current Yang Fire Horse year
No named branch relation
No named branch relation
No named stem relation
己 with 丙
Fire generates Earth
Earth year stem with the current Fire year stem.
Same branch, five stems
Compare all five Rooster elements
Calendar and pillar conventions are recorded in the methodology.