Yin Metal year pillar
Metal Rooster 辛酉
The Xin 辛 year stem carries Metal; the Rooster's You 酉 branch keeps its fixed Metal coordinate.
Year pillar辛酉Yin Metal Rooster
Five Phases direction
Metal meets Metal
Both positions carry Metal, so the element repeats rather than generating or controlling another element.
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, 庚申 Yang Metal Monkey.
Exact date records
Metal Rooster years, 1901–2099
The complete 辛酉 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
1921
- Lunar-year boundary
- 8 February 1921 → 27 January 1922
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1921 at 16:20
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
1981
- Lunar-year boundary
- 5 February 1981 → 24 January 1982
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1981 at 05:55
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2041
- Lunar-year boundary
- 1 February 2041 → 21 January 2042
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 3 February 2041 at 19:25
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Metal Rooster with the current Yang Fire Horse year
No named branch relation
No named branch relation
Heavenly-stem combination
辛 with 丙 · 五合
Fire controls Metal
Metal 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.