Complete signature return
1929
- Lunar-year boundary
- 10 February 1929 → 29 January 1930
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1929 at 15:08
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Yin Earth year pillar
Earth Snake (1929, 1989, 2049)
Earth Snake years are 1929, 1989, 2049 within 1901–2099. 己巳 is pillar 6 of the 60-year cycle: Yin Earth is its year-stem element, while the Snake branch remains Fire.
Earth Snake personality
Earth steadies the Snake's perceptiveness, emphasising patient assessment and a preference for conclusions that have practical support. Reserve here can provide calm in a conversation that is moving too quickly. The challenge is treating caution as a temporary stage rather than a permanent answer, so that asking for more evidence does not become a way to avoid every unfamiliar possibility.
Born in 1929, 1989, 2049? Check the opening date below before choosing this variant.
己巳: pillar anatomy
- Animal branch
- 巳 Si · Yin Fire
- Year stem and fixed branch
- Fire generates Earth
- Solar month 4
- Start of Summer · Summer
- Branch compass and double-hour
- SSE · 09:00–11:00
In the Five Phases cycle, Fire feeds Earth.
Na Yin pair: 大林木
Wood Na Yin · paired with 戊辰 Yang Earth Dragon in the 30 Na Yin pairs.
Exact date records
Earth Snake years, 1901–2099
The complete 己巳 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
1989
- Lunar-year boundary
- 6 February 1989 → 26 January 1990
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1989 at 04:27
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2049
- Lunar-year boundary
- 2 February 2049 → 22 January 2050
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 3 February 2049 at 17:53
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Earth Snake with the current Yang Fire Horse year
Seasonal meeting
Seasonal meeting 三会
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 Snake elements
Calendar and pillar conventions are recorded in the methodology.