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Civil hour reference · 2008-07-07 · 07:00–09:00

July 7, 2008 · 07:00–09:00 (Chen hour · Dragon)

The Chen hour · Dragon double-hour (07:00–09:00) completes Monday, July 7, 2008 with a fourth, hour pillar: 戊子 · 己未 · 戊申 · 丙辰.

丙辰hour pillar · Yang Fire Dragon

Answer first: the reference four pillars for 2008-07-07, 07:00–09:00, are year 戊子, month 己未, day 戊申, hour 丙辰. 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戊子Yang Earth RatMonth pillar己未Yin Earth GoatDay pillar戊申Yang Earth MonkeyHour pillar丙辰Yang Fire Dragon

Deterministic record

2008-07-07 · 07:00–09:00 at a glance

Gregorian dateMonday, July 7, 2008
Double-hourChen hour · Dragon · 07:00–09:00 civil clock · branch
Year pillar戊子 · Yang Earth Rat · Yang Earth over Water
Month pillar己未 · Yin Earth Goat · Yin Earth over Earth
Day pillar戊申 · Yang Earth Monkey · Yang Earth over Metal
Hour pillar丙辰 · Yang Fire Dragon · Yang Fire over Earth
Hour Na Yin沙中土 · hidden stems 戊 · 乙 · 癸
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.

戊子Year pillar

Yang Earth Rat · Wu Zi

The visible stem is Wu · Yang Earth; the branch is Zi · Rat · Water. Its Na Yin is 霹雳火, and the branch contains hidden stem . Open the full Jiazi record →

己未Month pillar

Yin Earth Goat · Ji Wei

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

戊申Day pillar

Yang Earth Monkey · Wu Shen

The visible stem is Wu · Yang Earth; the branch is Shen · Monkey · Metal. Its Na Yin is 大驿土, and the branch contains hidden stems 庚 · 壬 · 戊. Open the full Jiazi record →

丙辰Hour pillar

Yang Fire Dragon · Bing Chen

The visible stem is Bing · Yang Fire; the branch is Chen · Dragon · Earth. Its Na Yin is 沙中土, and the branch contains hidden stems 戊 · 乙 · 癸. 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 (07:00 or 09:00) 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 2008-07-07 07:00–09:00

What is the hour pillar for 07:00–09:00 on Monday, July 7, 2008?

In this civil-clock reference, the 07:00–09:00 double-hour on 2008-07-07 carries the hour pillar 丙辰 (Yang Fire Dragon), completing the four-pillar record 戊子 · 己未 · 戊申 · 丙辰.

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.