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Chinese calendar, 7 August 1952
7 August 1952 is lunar month 6, day 17, 1952, the Water Dragon year. The day pillar is Yin Wood Rooster. 11 named Yi activities; 5 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waning gibbous.
Thursday
August 1952
Lunar date
6th Month · 17th Day
一九五二年六月十七
Year of the
Earth restrains Water in the Five Phases, so the Dragon’s fixed element is understood as moderating the year element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 17 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1952-08-07
The daily almanac & observances
乙酉 Yin Wood Rooster
The stem gives Wood; the branch gives Rooster.
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
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 6 · 29 days
22 July 1952–19 August 1952. 12 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Qixi
26 August 1952 · Across documented Chinese traditions, women and girls have set out seasonal fruit and held needlework or other skill contests, though forms differ sharply by region and many have faded.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
August 1952 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar 6/16
Last quarter
Lunar 6/22
New moon
Lunar 7/1
First quarter
Lunar 7/9
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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This day in the traditional cycles
Each result below names this date’s position and explains what the term means.
- Day pillar 日柱
- Yin Wood Rooster · 乙酉— 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 Metal · Xīn 辛 (primary)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yang Earth Monkey · 戊申— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Water Dragon · 壬辰— Earth controls Water; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Spring Water · 泉中水— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Water.
- Day animal 生肖
- Rooster · 鸡— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Earth Rabbit · 己卯— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Dipper · 斗— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.North palace (北) · Xiezhi creature (獬) · traditionally favourable (吉)
- Day officer 建除
- Remove · 除— 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: Northeast (东北)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against planting, saying even many plants may not grow.乙不栽植千株不长The verse cautions against receiving guests, saying drunken disorder may follow.酉不会客醉坐颠狂Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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