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Your layered profile

16 February 1988Asia/Shanghai birthplace zoneUTC+08:00 at birthChinese New Year outer yearLi Chun Four Pillars chart

Start with the familiar Rabbit 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 辛 Xin, Yin Metal. 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 戊 Wu: Direct Resource because Earth generates the Day Master's Metal, with different polarity.
  • Month stem 甲 Jia: Direct Wealth because Wood is controlled by the Day Master's Metal, 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

    丁卯

    Yin Fire Rabbit

    29 January 1987 – 16 February 1988

  2. 02Inner · Month

    甲寅

    Yang Wood Tiger

    Opens 4 February 1988 at 22:42 (Asia/Shanghai) · Start of Spring (立春 Lìchūn)

  3. 03Day · Day Master

    辛丑

    Yin Metal Ox

    Day stem 辛 Xin 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 1987 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
丁 Ding · Yin Fire
Earthly Branch
卯 Mao (Rabbit)
Five phase
Fire
Polarity
Yin
Zodiac-year dates
29 January 1987 – 16 February 1988

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

    戊辰

    Yang Earth Dragon

    Turns at Li Chun for the Four Pillars chart.

  2. 02Month pillar月柱

    甲寅

    Yang Wood Tiger

    Opened by Start of Spring.

  3. 03Day pillar日柱

    辛丑

    Yin Metal Ox

    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.

辛 Xin 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
正官 Direct OfficerFire controls the Day Master; the polarities are different.
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辰 Dragon
    No named fixed relationship
  2. 02Month pillar寅 Tiger
    Shared Three Harmony group 三合 — Tiger · Horse · Dog → Fire
  3. 03Day pillar丑 Ox
    Six Harm 六害

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.

辛

Yin MetalDay Master · 日主

Open this phase
  • Wood2 / 6

    is controlled by the Day Master

  • Fire0 / 6

    Not present in the visible chart

  • Earth3 / 6

    generates the Day Master

  • Metal1 / 6

    same phase as the Day Master

  • Water0 / 6

    Not present in the visible chart

Fire and Water 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 9 hidden-stem occurrences. Primary, middle and residual name each stem’s place inside its branch.

Year · Dragon 辰
Month · Tiger 寅
Day · Ox 丑

Wood 2 · Fire 1 · Earth 3 · Metal 1 · Water 2. These are occurrences inside branches, counted separately from the visible characters; primary, middle and residual are not equal-strength weights.

Fire and Water appear inside the branches even though absent from the visible-character count.

Explore all twelve branches’ hidden stems →

Cycle year 1987 · 丁卯 Ding–Mao

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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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