Complete signature return
1950
- Lunar-year boundary
- 17 February 1950 → 5 February 1951
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1950 at 17:20
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Yang Metal year pillar
Metal Tiger (1950, 2010, 2070)
Metal Tiger years are 1950, 2010, 2070 within 1901–2099. 庚寅 is pillar 27 of the 60-year cycle: Yang Metal is its year-stem element, while the Tiger branch remains Wood.
Metal Tiger personality
Metal sharpens the Tiger's independence into a strong sense of principle, with clear boundaries around what it is prepared to defend. Resolve rather than speed becomes the central strength in this variant. The difficult edge is rigidity: a principled stance may need a flexible method, and accepting a useful compromise need not mean abandoning the original concern.
Born in 1950, 2010, 2070? Check the opening date below before choosing this variant.
庚寅: pillar anatomy
- Animal branch
- 寅 Yin · Yang Wood
- Year stem and fixed branch
- Metal controls Wood
- Solar month 1
- Start of Spring · Spring
- Branch compass and double-hour
- ENE · 03:00–05:00
In the Five Phases cycle, Metal regulates Wood.
Na Yin pair: 松柏木
Wood Na Yin · paired with 辛卯 Yin Metal Rabbit in the 30 Na Yin pairs.
Exact date records
Metal Tiger years, 1901–2099
The complete 庚寅 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
2010
- Lunar-year boundary
- 14 February 2010 → 2 February 2011
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2010 at 06:47
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2070
- Lunar-year boundary
- 11 February 2070 → 30 January 2071
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 3 February 2070 at 20:21
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Metal Tiger with the current Yang Fire Horse year
Three Harmonies
Three Harmonies 三合
No named stem relation
庚 with 丙
Fire controls Metal
Metal 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.