Yin Water year pillar
Water Rooster 癸酉
The Gui 癸 year stem carries Water; the Rooster's You 酉 branch keeps its fixed Metal coordinate.
Year pillar癸酉Yin Water 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, 壬申 Yang Water Monkey.
Exact date records
Water Rooster years, 1901–2099
The complete 癸酉 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
1933
- Lunar-year boundary
- 26 January 1933 → 13 February 1934
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1933 at 14:09
- Leap month
- Month 5
Complete signature return
1993
- Lunar-year boundary
- 23 January 1993 → 9 February 1994
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1993 at 03:37
- Leap month
- Month 3
Complete signature return
2053
- Lunar-year boundary
- 19 February 2053 → 7 February 2054
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 3 February 2053 at 17:13
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Water Rooster with the current Yang Fire Horse year
No named branch relation
No named branch relation
No named stem relation
癸 with 丙
Water controls Fire
Water 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.