Calculated chart · four time scales
Your layered profile
28 January 1998UTC+08:00 birth-place offsetChinese 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 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
Yang Earth Tiger
28 January 1998 – 15 February 1999
- 02Inner · Month
Yin Water Ox
Opens 5 January 1998 at 21:18 (UTC+08:00) · Minor Cold (小寒 Xiǎohán)
- 03Day · Day Master
Yin Wood Pig
Day stem 乙 Yi is the chart's Day Master.
- 04Secret · Hour
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Time not supplied
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Outer-year record
How 1998 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
- 寅 Yin (Tiger)
- Five phase
- Earth
- Polarity
- Yang
- Zodiac-year dates
- 28 January 1998 – 15 February 1999
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
Yin Fire Ox
- Branch
- 丑 Chou · Ox
- To Day Master
- 食神 Eating God
Turns at Li Chun for the Four Pillars chart.
- 02Month pillar月柱
Yin Water Ox
- Branch
- 丑 Chou · Ox
- To Day Master
- 偏印 Indirect Resource
Opened by Minor Cold.
- 03Day pillar日柱
Yin Wood Pig
- Stem
- 乙 Yi · Yin Wood
- Branch
- 亥 Hai · Pig
- 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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乙 Yi 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
- 伤官 Hurting OfficerFire is generated by the Day Master; the polarities are different.
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.
- Wood1 / 6
same phase as the Day Master
- Fire1 / 6
is generated by the Day Master
- Earth2 / 6
is controlled by the Day Master
- Metal0 / 6
Not present in the visible chart
- Water2 / 6
generates the Day Master
Metal does 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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