Calculated chart · four time scales

Your layered profile

3 February 1954UTC+08:00 birth-place offsetChinese New Year outer yearLi Chun Four Pillars chart

Start with the familiar Horse year, then read inward through month, day and hour. Every coordinate below opens into the guide that explains it.

Four nested zodiac rings illustrating year, month, day and hour layers
年 · 月 · 日 · 時Year, month, day and hour nested in one moment

Four coordinates · one moment

Your chart at a glance

The familiar zodiac year is shown first. Month, day and hour then place the same birth inside progressively smaller cycles.

  1. 01Outer · Chinese zodiac year

    甲午

    Yang Wood Horse

    3 February 195423 January 1955

  2. 02Inner · Month

    乙丑

    Yin Wood Ox

    Opens 6 January 1954 at 04:45 (UTC+08:00) · Minor Cold (小寒 Xiǎohán)

  3. 03Day · Day Master

    庚寅

    Yang Metal Tiger

    Day stem Geng is the chart's Day Master.

  4. 04Secret · Hour

    Time not supplied

    Use a local birth time to calculate the fourth pillar.

Outer-year record

How 1954 gets its name

The year name joins one Heavenly Stem to one Earthly Branch. Open any underlined value to follow that coordinate into the reference.

Heavenly Stem
Jia · Yang Wood
Earthly Branch
Wu (Horse)
Five phase
Wood
Polarity
Yang
Zodiac-year dates
3 February 195423 January 1955

Four Pillars · 四柱

The chart beneath the animal labels

Each column joins a Heavenly Stem above an Earthly Branch below. The relation line names how each visible stem stands to the Day Master.

  1. 01Year pillar年柱

    癸巳

    Yin Water Snake

    Turns at Li Chun for the Four Pillars chart.

  2. 02Month pillar月柱

    乙丑

    Yin Wood Ox

    Opened by Minor Cold.

  3. 03Day pillar日柱

    庚寅

    Yang Metal Tiger

    To Day Master
    日主 Day Master

    The reference stem for the rest of the chart.

  4. 04Hour pillar時柱

    Time not supplied

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    A local birth time is required.

Geng is the Day Master. It is a coordinate, not a complete interpretation by itself. Read the relationship rule →

Current cycle · 流年

2026 annual pillar

流年 means the running year. Its stem is read against the Day Master, and its branch is compared with each branch in the natal chart.

Li Chun boundary
4 February 2026
Annual stem
Bing · Yang Fire
Annual stem to Day Master
七杀 Seven KillingsFire controls the Day Master; the polarities are same.

Visible phase balance

What this chart is made of

Each pillar carries a phase in its stem and another in its branch. The 6 visible characters below are the first layer a reading compares with the Day Master.

Yang MetalDay Master · 日主

Open this phase
  • Wood2 / 6

    is controlled by the Day Master

  • Fire1 / 6

    controls the Day Master

  • Earth1 / 6

    generates the Day Master

  • Metal1 / 6

    same phase as the Day Master

  • Water1 / 6

    is generated by the Day Master

All five phases appear in this chart. See how all five phases relate

Cycle year 1954 · 甲午 JiaWu

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Year boundaryChinese New Year outer yearLi Chun chart year

The result shows both: the familiar outer-year animal turns at Chinese New Year; the Four Pillars chart turns at Li Chun.

Supported dates: 19 February 1901 to 8 February 2100. Birth dates are not saved.