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Chinese calendar, 12 September 1908
12 September 1908 is lunar month 8, day 17, 1908, the Earth Monkey year. The day pillar is Yang Metal Horse. 12 named Yi activities; 3 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waning gibbous.
Saturday
September 1908
Lunar date
8th Month · 17th Day
一九〇八年八月十七
Year of the
Earth generates Metal in the Five Phases, so the year element supports the Monkey’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 17 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1908-09-12
The daily almanac & observances
庚午 Yang Metal Horse
The stem gives Metal; the branch gives Horse.
Read this stem against your Day Master →Huang Dao and Hei Dao name the day-god cycle. For a particular plan, read its Yi and Ji activities below.
宜 Traditionally suitable
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Cut or make clothes裁衣
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Welcome a resident son-in-law纳婿
- Meet relatives and friends会亲友
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
- Move a coffin移柩
- Trap or capture捕捉
- Add a member to the household进人口
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 8 · 29 days
27 August 1908–24 September 1908. 12 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Double Ninth Festival
3 October 1908 · In Hong Kong, families may visit ancestral graves or hike and picnic in the hills on Chung Yeung, while observance varies across communities.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
September 1908 moon phases
First quarter
Lunar 8/9
Full moon
Lunar 8/15
Last quarter
Lunar 8/22
New moon
Lunar 9/1
Calculated phase moments use fixed UTC+8. A lunar day number and a Moon phase describe different things. How they fit together →
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Calendar terms explained
This day in the traditional cycles
Each result below names this date’s position and explains what the term means.
- Day pillar 日柱
- Yang Metal Horse · 庚午— this date’s position in the repeating 60-day stem–branch cycle.Hidden stems are stems conventionally contained in the day pillar’s earthly branch. Primary is the main layer; middle and residual are secondary layers.
- Yin Fire · Dīng 丁 (primary)
- Yin Earth · Jǐ 己 (middle)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yin Metal Rooster · 辛酉— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Earth Monkey · 戊申— Earth generates Metal; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Roadside Earth · 路旁土— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Earth.
- Day animal 生肖
- Horse · 马— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Wood Rat · 甲子— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Stomach · 胃— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.West palace (西) · Boar creature (彘) · traditionally favourable (吉)
- Day officer 建除
- Receive · 收— determined by this date’s earthly branch relative to its solar-term month branch.
- Auspicious directions 吉方
- Joy 喜神: Northwest (西北)
- Blessing 福神: Southwest (西南)
- Wealth 财神: East (正东)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against setting warp and weft, saying the loom may stand empty.庚不经络织机虚张The verse cautions against roofing a house, saying its owner may have to make changes.午不苫盖屋主更张Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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