Mystic Ragondin

The years · 16 of 60

1999: the year of the Earth Rabbit

己卯 — Jǐ mǎo. Earth above, the Rabbit beneath.

It does not begin on 1 January

In BaZi the year turns at Li Chun (立春), the solar term that opens spring, computed from the sun's position rather than the calendar's round number. The Earth Rabbit year runs from 4 February 1999 to 3 February 2000. Born in January or early February 1999? Your year animal is almost certainly the one before — check 1998. Many sites get this wrong by assuming 1 January; the date above is computed, and the engine that computed it also resolves the timezone your birthplace was actually keeping.

Sharing the pillar

The Rabbit returns every twelve years (1987, 2011), but the full 己卯 pillar only every sixty (1939). The same sixty names mark the days as well: there is a 己卯 day every sixty days.

The year pillar is the part of a chart most people know, and the part that says least. Compute all four pillars, in your browser, with nothing sent anywhere.

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