Yang Earth year pillar
Earth Tiger 戊寅
The Wu 戊 year stem carries Earth; the Tiger's Yin 寅 branch keeps its fixed Wood coordinate.
Year pillar戊寅Yang Earth Tiger
Pillar anatomy
One stem above one branch
Earthly branch
Yin branch · Yang Wood
- Solar coordinate
- Month 1, from Start of Spring
- Season · direction
- Spring · ENE
- Double-hour
- 03:00–05:00
This Na Yin is shared with the other pillar in its two-pillar cycle pair, 己卯 Yin Earth Rabbit.
Exact date records
Earth Tiger years, 1901–2099
The complete 戊寅 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
1938
- Lunar-year boundary
- 31 January 1938 → 18 February 1939
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1938 at 19:14
- Leap month
- Month 7
Complete signature return
1998
- Lunar-year boundary
- 28 January 1998 → 15 February 1999
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1998 at 08:56
- Leap month
- Month 5
Complete signature return
2058
- Lunar-year boundary
- 24 January 2058 → 11 February 2059
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 3 February 2058 at 22:34
- Leap month
- Month 4
Earth Tiger with the current Yang Fire Horse year
Three Harmonies
Three Harmonies 三合
No named stem relation
戊 with 丙
Fire generates Earth
Earth year stem with the current Fire year stem.
Same branch, five stems
Compare all five Tiger elements
Calendar and pillar conventions are recorded in the methodology.