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25 January 2009UTC+08:00 birth-place offsetChinese New Year outer yearLi Chun Four Pillars chart

Start with the familiar Rat 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

    戊子

    Yang Earth Rat

    7 February 2008 – 25 January 2009

  2. 02Inner · Month

    乙丑

    Yin Wood Ox

    Opens 5 January 2009 at 13:14 (UTC+08:00) · Minor Cold (小寒 Xiǎohán)

  3. 03Day · Day Master

    庚午

    Yang Metal Horse

    Day stem 庚 Geng 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 2008 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
子 Zi (Rat)
Five phase
Earth
Polarity
Yang
Zodiac-year dates
7 February 2008 – 25 January 2009

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

    Turns at Li Chun for the Four Pillars chart.

  2. 02Month pillar月柱

    乙丑

    Yin Wood Ox

    Opened by Minor Cold.

  3. 03Day pillar日柱

    庚午

    Yang Metal Horse

    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.

庚 Geng 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
丙 Bing · Yang Fire
Annual stem to Day Master
七杀 Seven KillingsFire controls 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子 Rat
    Six Clash 六冲
  2. 02Month pillar丑 Ox
    Six Harm 六害
  3. 03Day pillar午 Horse
    Same branch Self-punishment 自刑

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
  • Wood1 / 6

    is controlled by the Day Master

  • Fire1 / 6

    controls the Day Master

  • Earth2 / 6

    generates the Day Master

  • Metal1 / 6

    same phase as the Day Master

  • Water1 / 6

    is generated by the Day Master

All five phases appear in this chart. See how all five phases relate

Cycle year 2008 · 戊子 Wu–Zi

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Change the date or local time and the full result recalculates.

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.

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