By the traditional count, you are

37

That's your nominal age, the answer a grandmother would give. Your Western age today is 36.

Born in The lunar year 1990, year of the Metal Horse (gēng wǔ)

The math Current lunar year (2026) − birth lunar year (1990) + 1 = 37

Next tick You turn 38 on February 6, 2027, Chinese New Year, not your birthday

Special year This is your zodiac year (ben ming nian): the Horse has come back around. Tradition says wear something red

Ink painting of the Horse, this birth year's zodiac animal.

Cast your full chart from this birthday Meet the Horse

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The same date draws more than an age

That birth date also casts a full life chart: the years the tradition marks as your strongest, stamped with dates, and what it says you are built for. Leave your address and I will send you yours.

A handful of letters a year, and one click off at the bottom of every one. Your birth details stay with your chart here; they are never sold or handed on.

Same birthday, deeper readings

The big reading

Cast your full bazi chart

Your whole life as one chart: decades, strong years, peak window. This date carries over; add your birth hour there.

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Your birthday on the lunar calendar

The exact lunar month and day, leap months included.

Feng shui

Your kua number and lucky directions

Your birth year maps to a trigram and eight directions.

Computed against the real lunar calendar as of September 22, 2026 (UTC). Nominal age is the traditional count, used in fortune-telling and custom; it is not a legal age anywhere; China's documents use the Western count. How the count works, and where it still matters: the calculator page.