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Civil hour reference · 2002-03-23 · 13:00–15:00

March 23, 2002 · 13:00–15:00 (Wei hour · Goat)

The Wei hour · Goat double-hour (13:00–15:00) completes Saturday, March 23, 2002 with a fourth, hour pillar: 壬午 · 癸卯 · 庚寅 · 癸未.

癸未hour pillar · Yin Water Goat

Answer first: the reference four pillars for 2002-03-23, 13:00–15:00, are year 壬午, month 癸卯, day 庚寅, hour 癸未. The hour stem is derived from the day stem by the standard five-rat rule. This is a deterministic calendar record, not a personal reading.

Year pillar壬午Yang Water HorseMonth pillar癸卯Yin Water RabbitDay pillar庚寅Yang Metal TigerHour pillar癸未Yin Water Goat

Deterministic record

2002-03-23 · 13:00–15:00 at a glance

Gregorian dateSaturday, March 23, 2002
Double-hourWei hour · Goat · 13:00–15:00 civil clock · branch
Year pillar壬午 · Yang Water Horse · Yang Water over Fire
Month pillar癸卯 · Yin Water Rabbit · Yin Water over Wood
Day pillar庚寅 · Yang Metal Tiger · Yang Metal over Wood
Hour pillar癸未 · Yin Water Goat · Yin Water over Earth
Hour Na Yin杨柳木 · hidden stems 己 · 丁 · 乙
Zi-hour conventionEarly Zi: the 23:00–01:00 double-hour is anchored to this civil date at 00:00. The late-Zi school (23:00–24:00 → next day) is a documented boundary below.

Four coordinates, four jobs

What the four reference pillars contain

Each stem-branch pair is a deterministic calendar coordinate. The hour pair inherits its branch from the double-hour and its stem from the day stem, so it stays consistent with every other hour page of this date.

壬午Year pillar

Yang Water Horse · Ren Wu

The visible stem is Ren · Yang Water; the branch is Wu · Horse · Fire. Its Na Yin is 杨柳木, and the branch contains hidden stems 丁 · 己. Open the full Jiazi record →

癸卯Month pillar

Yin Water Rabbit · Gui Mao

The visible stem is Gui · Yin Water; the branch is Mao · Rabbit · Wood. Its Na Yin is 金箔金, and the branch contains hidden stem . Open the full Jiazi record →

庚寅Day pillar

Yang Metal Tiger · Geng Yin

The visible stem is Geng · Yang Metal; the branch is Yin · Tiger · Wood. Its Na Yin is 松柏木, and the branch contains hidden stems 甲 · 丙 · 戊. Open the full Jiazi record →

癸未Hour pillar

Yin Water Goat · Gui Wei

The visible stem is Gui · Yin Water; the branch is Wei · Goat · Earth. Its Na Yin is 杨柳木, and the branch contains hidden stems 己 · 丁 · 乙. Open the full Jiazi record →

Calculation boundary

What this hour reference does not settle

This page uses a standard civil clock so double-hours can be compared consistently across dates. A real birth happened at a place and an instant, not inside a URL slug.

  • True solar time: the reference assumes a standard-meridian civil clock. Birthplace longitude and the equation of time shift the effective hour, and can move the resolved pillar to a neighboring double-hour.
  • Hour boundary: a clock time within the correction margin of an odd-hour boundary (13:00 or 15:00) is boundary-risk until resolved against place.
  • Zi-hour school: the 23:00–01:00 slot follows the early-Zi convention. Late-Zi schools push 23:00–24:00 onto the next day pillar; neither this page nor the atlas settles that debate.
  • Interpretation: one four-pillar record does not determine personality, career, relationships, wealth, health, or events. It is a coordinate, not a verdict.

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Questions about 2002-03-23 13:00–15:00

What is the hour pillar for 13:00–15:00 on Saturday, March 23, 2002?

In this civil-clock reference, the 13:00–15:00 double-hour on 2002-03-23 carries the hour pillar 癸未 (Yin Water Goat), completing the four-pillar record 壬午 · 癸卯 · 庚寅 · 癸未.

Why does the Zi hour list 23:00–01:00 as one range?

The Zi double-hour spans midnight in the classical two-segment form 23:00–01:00. This reference adopts the early-Zi convention: 00:00–01:00 belongs to the same civil date. Schools that use the late-Zi convention assign 23:00–24:00 to the next day pillar, which can change both the day and hour pillar; that difference is an open school boundary, not an error.

Is this my personal hour pillar?

Not necessarily. This page is a civil-clock reference at a standard meridian. A personal chart resolves your birthplace longitude, historical timezone, and true solar time, and any of those corrections can move the resolved hour pillar to a neighboring double-hour.

What happens near an hour boundary?

A clock time within the correction margin of an odd-hour boundary (01:00, 03:00, … 23:00) can resolve to the adjacent double-hour once longitude and equation-of-time corrections are applied. Use the calculator to see the resolved pillar and its boundary-risk flag.