Near Jie: two hours before Jingzhe

The start of a Luck Pillar sequence is not a fixed age. It is measured from your birth moment to a specific solar term, and the interval is converted into a starting age. This case sits about two hours before Jingzhe, so the interval is tiny and the first period begins within days rather than years.

That produces a result that looks wrong at first glance. Most readers expect a starting age of several years, because that is what they have seen in other charts. Here the engine returns a start date in March 2026 for a March 2026 birth, which is the correct consequence of a two-hour interval under the stated conversion.

The useful lesson is that the starting age is a computed quantity with a wide range, not a constant. It depends entirely on where your birth falls within the solar month, which is why two people born a fortnight apart can start their sequences years apart.

It also explains why starting ages reported by different tools diverge more than any other single value. The interval itself is measured against a solar-term timestamp, and the conversion from interval to age follows a traditional rule with more than one accepted form. Two tools can agree completely on your four pillars and still disagree here, because the disagreement lives in the conversion rather than in the chart.