Calculated chart · four time scales
Your layered profile
27 January 1971UTC+08:00 birth-place offsetChinese New Year outer yearLi Chun Four Pillars chart
Start with the familiar Pig year, then read inward through month, day and hour. Every coordinate below opens into the guide that explains it.
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.
- 01Outer · Chinese zodiac year
Yin Metal Pig
27 January 1971 – 14 February 1972
- 02Inner · Month
Yin Earth Ox
Opens 6 January 1971 at 07:45 (UTC+08:00) · Minor Cold (小寒 Xiǎohán)
- 03Day · Day Master
Yang Water Rat
Day stem 壬 Ren is the chart's Day Master.
- 04Secret · Hour
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Time not supplied
Use a local birth time to calculate the fourth pillar.
Outer-year record
How 1971 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
- 辛 Xin · Yin Metal
- Earthly Branch
- 亥 Hai (Pig)
- Five phase
- Metal
- Polarity
- Yin
- Zodiac-year dates
- 27 January 1971 – 14 February 1972
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.
- 01Year pillar年柱
Yang Metal Dog
- Branch
- 戌 Xu · Dog
- To Day Master
- 偏印 Indirect Resource
Turns at Li Chun for the Four Pillars chart.
- 02Month pillar月柱
Yin Earth Ox
- Stem
- 己 Ji · Yin Earth
- Branch
- 丑 Chou · Ox
- To Day Master
- 正官 Direct Officer
Opened by Minor Cold.
- 03Day pillar日柱
Yang Water Rat
- Branch
- 子 Zi · Rat
- To Day Master
- 日主 Day Master
The reference stem for the rest of the chart.
- 04Hour pillar時柱
Time not supplied
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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.
- Running year
- 丙午 Yang Fire Horse
- Li Chun boundary
- 4 February 2026
- Annual stem to Day Master
- 偏财 Indirect WealthFire is controlled by the Day Master; the polarities are same.
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.
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.
- Wood0 / 6
Not present in the visible chart
- Fire0 / 6
Not present in the visible chart
- Earth3 / 6
controls the Day Master
- Metal1 / 6
generates the Day Master
- Water2 / 6
same phase as the Day Master
Wood and Fire do not appear in these 6 visible characters. Absence here is a chart fact, not an automatic good-or-bad verdict, though with no birth time this count runs over six characters instead of eight, so an absence here is a weaker observation than it would be with the hour pillar. See how all five phases relate
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