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16 February 1969UTC+08:00 birth-place offsetChinese New Year outer yearLi Chun Four Pillars chart

Start with the familiar Monkey 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

    戊申

    Yang Earth Monkey

    30 January 1968 – 16 February 1969

  2. 02Inner · Month

    丙寅

    Yang Fire Tiger

    Opens 4 February 1969 at 07:58 (UTC+08:00) · Start of Spring (立春 Lìchūn)

  3. 03Day · Day Master

    壬戌

    Yang Water Dog

    Day stem 壬 Ren is the chart's Day Master.

  4. 04Secret · Hour

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    Time not supplied

    Use a local birth time to calculate the fourth pillar.

Outer-year record

How 1968 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
戊 Wu · Yang Earth
Earthly Branch
申 Shen (Monkey)
Five phase
Earth
Polarity
Yang
Zodiac-year dates
30 January 1968 – 16 February 1969

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

    己酉

    Yin Earth Rooster

    Turns at Li Chun for the Four Pillars chart.

  2. 02Month pillar月柱

    丙寅

    Yang Fire Tiger

    Opened by Start of Spring.

  3. 03Day pillar日柱

    壬戌

    Yang Water Dog

    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.

壬 Ren 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
丙 Bing · Yang Fire
Annual stem to Day Master
偏财 Indirect WealthFire is controlled by the Day Master; the polarities are same.
Horse zodiac animal in a traditional paper-cut illustration

午 Wu · Horse

How the annual Horse meets your natal branches

A shared three-branch group is named as a shared group; two branches alone do not complete the full group.

  1. 01Year pillar酉 Rooster
    No named fixed relationship
  2. 02Month pillar寅 Tiger
    Shared Three Harmony group 三合 — Tiger · Horse · Dog → Fire
  3. 03Day pillar戌 Dog
    Shared Three Harmony group 三合 — Tiger · Horse · Dog → Fire

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.

壬

Yang WaterDay Master · 日主

Open this phase
  • Wood1 / 6

    is generated by the Day Master

  • Fire1 / 6

    is controlled by the Day Master

  • Earth2 / 6

    controls the Day Master

  • Metal1 / 6

    generates the Day Master

  • Water1 / 6

    same phase as the Day Master

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

Cycle year 1968 · 戊申 Wu–Shen

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Places Li Chun and month openings on the local clock; for example +08:00 or -05:00.

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.

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