Birth year lookup

1968: what element and Vietnamese zodiac sign?

People born in 1968 have the element Earth (nạp âm Đại Trạch Thổ (Earth of the Great Marsh)) and are Mậu Thân, Year of the Monkey. The Mậu Thân year runs from Tết on 29 January 1968 to 15 February 1969. Born from 1 January 1968 to 28 January 1968? That is Đinh Mùi, not Mậu Thân.

What if you were born in January or February 1968?

The sign follows the lunar year, which turns at Tết, not on 1 January. Anyone born from 1 January 1968 to 28 January 1968 still belongs to the Đinh Mùi year (1967); anyone born from 1 January 1969 to 15 February 1969 still belongs to Mậu Thân. Convert a birth date to the lunar calendar.

How old is someone born in 1968 in 2026?

Someone born in the solar year 1968 turns 58 on their birthday in 2026. The East Asian (tuổi mụ) age of Mậu Thân in 2026 is 59: it counts one year at birth and adds one at every Tết.

What is the Kua of someone born in 1968?

Under the Eight Mansions (Bát Trạch) school, a man born in Mậu Thân has the Kua Khôn (Kun), West group; a woman Khảm (Kan), East group. The Kua is worked out from the lunar year and sex, and is used to choose a house facing. See the eight directions for a Kua.

Which colours, directions and trades go with 1968 in folk belief?

In the Five Elements convention common in Vietnam, Đại Trạch Thổ (Earth of the Great Marsh) belongs to Earth, so it is said to suit yellow, earth brown, and the colours of Fire, the element that generates Earth: red, orange, purple. The directions of Earth are Southwest, Northeast; trades usually assigned to it are real estate, construction and building materials, ceramics, agricultural land and produce. This is convention, not calculation: the books differ on colours and trades, and no study has shown that choosing by element changes outcomes. A house facing under Bát Trạch is worked out from the Kua above, not from the element. Kua and directions by birth year.

Which signs match Mậu Thân 1968, and which to avoid?

In the Vietnamese folk table, Thân is in Three Harmony with Tý, Thìn and Six Harmony with Tỵ; it clashes with Dần and is harmed by Hợi. Tỵ is both Six Harmony and Four Clash with Thân: the two tables are separate conventions and contradict each other on this pair. No general rule says which one prevails, so this page does not pick a side.

The Three Harmonies, Six Combinations, Four Clashes and Six Harms table is a common folk convention, not the only reckoning. The Four Clashes in groups of four is a Vietnamese folk way of matching ages; the old texts call only the six opposite pairs a clash. Some schools also weigh the Heavenly Stems and the Na Yin element before calling a pair harmonious or clashing.