Dog years
- #11 of 12
- Element: earth
- late autumn
- 19~21h
The dog is the dry earth of late autumn — a storehouse that puts fire away, so heat remains inside. It reads as a guarding position: the standard is clear, and that same standard can become the line it draws between people.
The dog is credited with loyalty. Its branch is a storehouse that puts fire away, so heat remains inside — and when that heat points at a person it reads as loyalty. Pointed elsewhere, it shows up as a firmly drawn line.
Metal, fire, and earth hide together here, placing what judges and what warms in the same seat. This is the arrangement that draws the two opposite reviews — warm, and rigid about principle — at the same time.
The five year pillars inside this sign
The branch stays the same; the heavenly stem above it changes every twelve years, and with it the whole reading. Find your birth year below.
Green Dog甲戌
1934 · 1994
Wood breaking dry earth — once the reason holds, it goes all the way.
Red Dog丙戌
1946 · 2006
Fire buried in earth — held a long while, then put out all at once.
Yellow Dog戊戌
1958 · 2018
Earth on earth — strong at guarding, clear about its own standard.
White Dog庚戌
1970 · 2030
Earth growing metal — trust arrives late and then lasts.
Black Dog壬戌
1982
Earth damming water — feelings get turned over inside for a long time.
Which signs Dog meets well
Branch relations are fixed by position in the cycle, so they hold for every year of this sign.
Six harmony — the easiest pair
Young wood meets dry earth. When the dog's standard holds the rabbit's sensitivity, both settle.
Trine — the group that gets things done
Together these three form a fire frame. Their strength shows in starting and spreading.
Clash — meeting head-on
Damp earth and dry earth — two storehouses facing each other. What each has kept differs, and the clash comes when they open.
Hidden grudge — friction without a reason
One carries fire, the other has put it away — similar heat, different use. The resemblance is what makes it catch.
Sign-to-sign is the coarse layer — one twelfth of the population shares it. Real compatibility is read from the day pillar, which needs a birth date.
One catch: Ipchun, not January 1
A sign does not change at midnight on January 1. It changes at Ipchun, the solar term falling around February 4. Someone born in January 2018 is not Dog — that birthday still belongs to Rooster, the 丁酉 year. If you were born in January or the first days of February, the sign most sites hand you may be off by one. ARO reads the solar-term boundary, computed to the minute.
Your sign is one of four characters in your chart. The other three — month, day, and hour — decide how it actually plays out.
ARO reads patterns, not destiny. This page is a way in, not a verdict.