Skip to content
Bodhastra
Your birth date

Date-only systems resolve immediately. Systems that require a birth time or place will say so instead of guessing.

Traditions to include

Choose one or several. With no choices, general browsing shows every tradition.

Your date and choices are saved only in this browser on this device. Clear all removes them.

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

The twelve animals · branch 1

鼠

Rat

鼠 shǔ · 子 zǐ

The calendrical structure

earthly branch子 · Zi · zǐ
cycle position1 of 12
branch polarityyang
English variantsMouse

Five forms inside sixty years

The five heavenly stems that can pair with Rat in one sixty-year round.
Gan-Zhicharactersphasepolarity
Jia-Zi甲子woodyang
Bing-Zi丙子fireyang
Wu-Zi戊子earthyang
Geng-Zi庚子metalyang
Ren-Zi壬子wateryang

Years in the supported span: 1900 · 1912 · 1924 · 1936 · 1948 · 1960 · 1972 · 1984 · 1996 · 2008 · 2020

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.

Every source, listed

Place data from GeoNames, used under CC BY 4.0.