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
Yin Metal year pillar
Metal Snake (1941, 2001, 2061)
Metal Snake years are 1941, 2001, 2061 within 1901–2099. 辛巳 is pillar 18 of the 60-year cycle: Yin Metal is its year-stem element, while the Snake branch remains Fire.
Metal Snake personality
Metal concentrates the Snake's selectiveness into clear standards and firm boundaries around what it chooses to reveal. This variant values a precise observation and a carefully kept commitment over a broad display of enthusiasm. The difficult edge is distrust becoming too settled, where an early judgement is protected so closely that later evidence has little chance to change it.
Born in 1941, 2001, 2061? Check the opening date below before choosing this variant.
辛巳: pillar anatomy
- Animal branch
- 巳 Si · Yin Fire
- Year stem and fixed branch
- Fire controls Metal
- Solar month 4
- Start of Summer · Summer
- Branch compass and double-hour
- SSE · 09:00–11:00
In the Five Phases cycle, Fire regulates Metal.
Na Yin pair: 白蜡金
Metal Na Yin · paired with 庚辰 Yang Metal Dragon in the 30 Na Yin pairs.
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
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.