Yin Metal year pillar
Metal Snake 辛巳
The Xin 辛 year stem carries Metal; the Snake's Si 巳 branch keeps its fixed Fire coordinate.
Year pillar辛巳Yin Metal Snake
Pillar anatomy
One stem above one branch
Earthly branch
Si branch · Yin Fire
- Solar coordinate
- Month 4, from Start of Summer
- Season · direction
- Summer · SSE
- Double-hour
- 09:00–11:00
This Na Yin is shared with the other pillar in its two-pillar cycle pair, 庚辰 Yang Metal Dragon.
Exact date records
Metal Snake years, 1901–2099
The complete 辛巳 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
1941
- Lunar-year boundary
- 27 January 1941 → 14 February 1942
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1941 at 12:49
- Leap month
- Month 6
Complete signature return
2001
- Lunar-year boundary
- 24 January 2001 → 11 February 2002
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2001 at 02:28
- Leap month
- Month 4
Complete signature return
2061
- Lunar-year boundary
- 21 January 2061 → 8 February 2062
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 3 February 2061 at 15:53
- Leap month
- Month 3
Metal Snake with the current Yang Fire Horse year
Seasonal meeting
Seasonal meeting 三会
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 Snake elements
Calendar and pillar conventions are recorded in the methodology.