Calculated chart · four time scales

Your layered profile

6 February 2008UTC+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 nested zodiac rings illustrating year, month, day and hour layers
年 · 月 · 日 · 時Year, month, day and hour nested in one moment

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

    丁亥

    Yin Fire Pig

    18 February 20076 February 2008

  2. 02Inner · Month

    甲寅

    Yang Wood Tiger

    Opens 4 February 2008 at 19:00 (UTC+08:00) · Start of Spring (立春 Lìchūn)

  3. 03Day · Day Master

    丙子

    Yang Fire Rat

    Day stem Bing 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 2007 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
Ding · Yin Fire
Earthly Branch
Hai (Pig)
Five phase
Fire
Polarity
Yin
Zodiac-year dates
18 February 20076 February 2008

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

    戊子

    Yang Earth Rat

    To Day Master
    食神 Eating God

    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

    丙子

    Yang Fire 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.

Bing 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.

Li Chun boundary
4 February 2026
Annual stem
Bing · Yang Fire
Annual stem to Day Master
比肩 FriendFire same phase as 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.

  1. 01Year pillar Rat
  2. 02Month pillar Tiger
  3. 03Day pillar Rat

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.

Yang FireDay Master · 日主

Open this phase
  • Wood2 / 6

    generates the Day Master

  • Fire1 / 6

    same phase as the Day Master

  • Earth1 / 6

    is generated by the Day Master

  • Metal0 / 6

    Not present in the visible chart

  • Water2 / 6

    controls 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

Cycle year 2007 · 丁亥 DingHai

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Adds the secret/hour layer, read as local civil time.

Places Li Chun and month openings on the local clock; for example +08:00 or -05:00.

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.