Yang Wood year pillar
Wood Tiger 甲寅
The Jia 甲 year stem carries Wood; the Tiger's Yin 寅 branch keeps its fixed Wood coordinate.
Year pillar甲寅Yang Wood Tiger
Five Phases direction
Wood meets Wood
Both positions carry Wood, so the element repeats rather than generating or controlling another element.
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, 乙卯 Yin Wood Rabbit.
Exact date records
Wood Tiger years, 1901–2099
The complete 甲寅 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
1914
- Lunar-year boundary
- 26 January 1914 → 13 February 1915
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1914 at 23:29
- Leap month
- Month 5
Complete signature return
1974
- Lunar-year boundary
- 23 January 1974 → 10 February 1975
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1974 at 13:00
- Leap month
- Month 4
Complete signature return
2034
- Lunar-year boundary
- 19 February 2034 → 7 February 2035
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2034 at 02:41
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2094
- Lunar-year boundary
- 15 February 2094 → 4 February 2095
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 3 February 2094 at 16:17
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Wood Tiger with the current Yang Fire Horse year
Three Harmonies
Three Harmonies 三合
No named stem relation
甲 with 丙
Wood generates Fire
Wood 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.