Yin Water year pillar
Water Snake 癸巳
The Gui 癸 year stem carries Water; the Snake's Si 巳 branch keeps its fixed Fire coordinate.
Year pillar癸巳Yin Water 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, 壬辰 Yang Water Dragon.
Exact date records
Water Snake years, 1901–2099
The complete 癸巳 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
1953
- Lunar-year boundary
- 14 February 1953 → 2 February 1954
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1953 at 10:45
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2013
- Lunar-year boundary
- 10 February 2013 → 30 January 2014
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2013 at 00:13
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2073
- Lunar-year boundary
- 7 February 2073 → 26 January 2074
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 3 February 2073 at 13:52
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Water Snake with the current Yang Fire Horse year
Seasonal meeting
Seasonal meeting 三会
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 Snake elements
Calendar and pillar conventions are recorded in the methodology.