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Twelve animals on a twelve-year cycle, paired with five phases across a sixty-year round.

The twelve animals · branch 2

牛

Ox

牛 niú · 丑 chǒu

The calendrical structure

earthly branch丑 · Chou · chǒu
cycle position2 of 12
branch polarityyin
English variantsCow · Cattle

Five forms inside sixty years

The five heavenly stems that can pair with Ox in one sixty-year round.
Gan-Zhicharactersphasepolarity
Yi-Chou乙丑woodyin
Ding-Chou丁丑fireyin
Ji-Chou己丑earthyin
Xin-Chou辛丑metalyin
Gui-Chou癸丑wateryin

Years in the supported span: 1901 · 1913 · 1925 · 1937 · 1949 · 1961 · 1973 · 1985 · 1997 · 2009 · 2021

What this page does not claim

The animal names a year branch. It is not a complete Four Pillars chart and, by itself, does not establish a personality. The current corpus supports the structure above, not a list of flattering or hostile adjectives.

Sources

Hong Kong Observatory, The 12-Year Animal Cycle. This page also checks the Han textual pairing and the Met’s curatorial history where listed. See the complete Chinese panel →

Bodhastra documents what astrological traditions have said, and when they started saying it. It is presented as cultural history and entertainment. Nothing here is medical, psychological, financial or predictive advice, and nothing here is a claim about what will happen to you.

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