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23 January 1974Asia/Shanghai birthplace zoneUTC+08:00 at birthChinese New Year outer yearLi Chun Four Pillars chart

Start with the familiar Tiger 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
Start with your Day Master and chart relationships

Your shown Day Master is 甲 Jia, Yang Wood. It is the day stem against which the chart names other stems. Without a birth time, a 23:00–23:59 birth may move the day pillar under this site's late-Rat convention.

  • Year stem 癸 Gui: Direct Resource because Water generates the Day Master's Wood, with different polarity.
  • Month stem 乙 Yi: Rob Wealth because Wood matches the Day Master's Wood, with different polarity.

Read all four pillars → Then open the stems inside each branch →

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

    甲寅

    Yang Wood Tiger

    23 January 1974 – 10 February 1975

  2. 02Inner · Month

    乙丑

    Yin Wood Ox

    Opens 6 January 1974 at 01:19 (Asia/Shanghai) · Minor Cold (小寒 Xiǎohán)

  3. 03Day · Day Master

    甲子

    Yang Wood Rat

    Day stem 甲 Jia 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 1974 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
甲 Jia · Yang Wood
Earthly Branch
寅 Yin (Tiger)
Five phase
Wood
Polarity
Yang
Zodiac-year dates
23 January 1974 – 10 February 1975

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

    癸丑

    Yin Water Ox

    Turns at Li Chun for the Four Pillars chart.

  2. 02Month pillar月柱

    乙丑

    Yin Wood Ox

    To Day Master
    劫财 Rob Wealth

    Opened by Minor Cold.

  3. 03Day pillar日柱

    甲子

    Yang Wood Rat

    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.

甲 Jia is the Day Master. It is the reference used to name the chart’s Ten Gods relationships. 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
食神 Eating GodFire is generated 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丑 Ox
    Six Harm 六害
  2. 02Month pillar丑 Ox
    Six Harm 六害
  3. 03Day pillar子 Rat
    Six Clash 六冲

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.

甲

Yang WoodDay Master · 日主

Open this phase
  • Wood2 / 6

    same phase as the Day Master

  • Fire0 / 6

    Not present in the visible chart

  • Earth2 / 6

    is controlled by the Day Master

  • Metal0 / 6

    Not present in the visible chart

  • Water2 / 6

    generates the Day Master

Fire and Metal do not appear in these 6 visible characters. Add a birth time to include the hour’s two characters in this count. See how all five phases relate

Hidden stems inside your chart

Your 3 calculated branches contain 7 hidden-stem occurrences. Primary, middle and residual name each stem’s place inside its branch.

Year · Ox 丑
Month · Ox 丑
Day · Rat 子

Wood 0 · Fire 0 · Earth 2 · Metal 2 · Water 3. These are occurrences inside branches, counted separately from the visible characters; primary, middle and residual are not equal-strength weights.

Metal appears inside the branches even though absent from the visible-character count.

Explore all twelve branches’ hidden stems →

Cycle year 1974 · 甲寅 Jia–Yin

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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.

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