Calculated chart · four time scales

Your layered profile

4 February 1992Asia/Shanghai birthplace zoneUTC+08:00 at birthChinese 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
Start with your Day Master and chart relationships

Your shown Day Master is 庚 Geng, Yang 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.

A birth time is needed to settle the year or month stem on this solar-term boundary before naming its relationship.

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

    壬申

    Yang Water Monkey

    4 February 1992 – 22 January 1993

  2. 02Inner · Month

    辛丑

    Yin Metal Ox

    Opens 6 January 1992 at 10:08 (Asia/Shanghai) · Minor Cold (小寒 Xiǎohán)

  3. 03Day · Day Master

    庚戌

    Yang Metal Dog

    Day stem 庚 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 1992 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
壬 Ren · Yang Water
Earthly Branch
申 Shen (Monkey)
Five phase
Water
Polarity
Yang
Zodiac-year dates
4 February 1992 – 22 January 1993

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

    辛未

    Yin Metal Goat

    To Day Master
    劫财 Rob Wealth

    Turns at Li Chun for the Four Pillars chart.

  2. 02Month pillar月柱

    辛丑

    Yin Metal Ox

    To Day Master
    劫财 Rob Wealth

    Opened by Minor Cold.

  3. 03Day pillar日柱

    庚戌

    Yang Metal 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

    Add a birth time

    A local birth time is required.

庚 Geng 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
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.

庚

Yang MetalDay Master · 日主

Open this phase
  • Wood0 / 6

    Not present in the visible chart

  • Fire0 / 6

    Not present in the visible chart

  • Earth3 / 6

    generates the Day Master

  • Metal3 / 6

    same phase as the Day Master

  • Water0 / 6

    Not present in the visible chart

Wood and 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 · Goat 未
Month · Ox 丑
Day · Dog 戌

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

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

Explore all twelve branches’ hidden stems →

Cycle year 1992 · 壬申 Ren–Shen

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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.