Birth year lookup

1980: what element and Vietnamese zodiac sign?

People born in 1980 have the element Wood (nạp âm Thạch Lựu Mộc (Wood of the Pomegranate)) and are Canh Thân, Year of the Monkey. The Canh Thân year runs from Tết on 16 February 1980 to 4 February 1981. Born from 1 January 1980 to 15 February 1980? That is Kỷ Mùi, not Canh Thân.

What if you were born in January or February 1980?

The sign follows the lunar year, which turns at Tết, not on 1 January. Anyone born from 1 January 1980 to 15 February 1980 still belongs to the Kỷ Mùi year (1979); anyone born from 1 January 1981 to 4 February 1981 still belongs to Canh Thân. Convert a birth date to the lunar calendar.

How old is someone born in 1980 in 2026?

Someone born in the solar year 1980 turns 46 on their birthday in 2026. The East Asian (tuổi mụ) age of Canh Thân in 2026 is 47: it counts one year at birth and adds one at every Tết.

What is the Kua of someone born in 1980?

Under the Eight Mansions (Bát Trạch) school, a man born in Canh Thân has the Kua Khôn (Kun), West group; a woman Tốn (Xun), 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 1980 in folk belief?

In the Five Elements convention common in Vietnam, Thạch Lựu Mộc (Wood of the Pomegranate) belongs to Wood, so it is said to suit green, verdant green, and the colours of Water, the element that generates Wood: blue, black. The directions of Wood are East, Southeast; trades usually assigned to it are timber and furniture, farming and forestry, education, paper and publishing. 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 Canh Thân 1980, 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.