Yang Water year pillar
Water Tiger 壬寅
The Ren 壬 year stem carries Water; the Tiger's Yin 寅 branch keeps its fixed Wood coordinate.
Year pillar壬寅Yang Water 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, 癸卯 Yin Water Rabbit.
Exact date records
Water Tiger years, 1901–2099
The complete 壬寅 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
1902
- Lunar-year boundary
- 8 February 1902 → 28 January 1903
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 5 February 1902 at 01:38
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
1962
- Lunar-year boundary
- 5 February 1962 → 24 January 1963
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1962 at 15:17
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2022
- Lunar-year boundary
- 1 February 2022 → 21 January 2023
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2022 at 04:50
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2082
- Lunar-year boundary
- 29 January 2082 → 16 February 2083
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 3 February 2082 at 18:12
- Leap month
- Month 7
Water Tiger with the current Yang Fire Horse year
Three Harmonies
Three Harmonies 三合
Heavenly-stem clash
壬 with 丙 · 天干相冲
Water controls Fire
Water 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.