In Korean saju, your birth year is one of four pillars in your chart. It's the one that speaks to family, friends and how you show up in a group. Here's what Grandma Choi says about 2004.
In a group, you're the one everyone leans on. You give advice, lend the car, hold the plan together, and nobody thinks to ask how you're doing.
Monkey years make fixers. Clever, quick, and a little too good at talking your way out of things.
“Ten ideas, nine half-built. Finish one.”— Grandma Choi
2027 doesn't hit your birth year directly. Your family and friend circle stays steady while the action happens elsewhere in your chart. And for your birth year's element, wood, 2027 is a year of output: make things and show them, don't save your energy for later.
Your main element comes from your birth day, not your year. Find yours.
The saju year doesn't start on January 1 or on Lunar New Year. It starts at 입춘 (ipchun), the start of spring on the solar calendar. In 2004 that was February 4, 2004 at 8:56 PM Korea time. Born before that? You belong to 2003: a Water Sheep.
Your birth year is the outside view. The real reading comes from your day pillar, which most people have never heard of, plus your month and hour. Enter your birthday and Grandma Choi lays out all eight characters for free.
Get my full 2004 chart