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Chinese calendar, 16 November 1985
16 November 1985 is lunar month 10, day 5, 1985, the Wood Ox year. The day pillar is Yin Earth Goat. 25 named Yi activities; 5 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waxing crescent.
Saturday
November 1985
Lunar date
10th Month · 5th Day
一九八五年十月初五
Year of the
Wood restrains Earth in the Five Phases, so the year element is understood as moderating the Ox’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 5 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1985-11-16
The daily almanac & observances
己未 Yin Earth Goat
The stem gives Earth; the branch gives Goat.
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
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Pray for children求嗣
- Daoist fasting and offering rites斋醮
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Meet relatives and friends会亲友
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Begin school入学
- Receive funds纳财
- Trade交易
- Sign a contract立券
- Set up a loom's warp经络
- Lay a foundation起基
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Set foundation stones定磉
- Dig a pond开池
- Plant crops栽种
- Acquire livestock纳畜
- Raise livestock牧养
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- Erect a memorial stone立碑
- Burial安葬
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 10 · 30 days
12 November 1985–11 December 1985. 25 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Winter Solstice
22 December 1985 · In parts of northern China people eat dumplings, while Shanghai and some southern communities favour tangyuan; other foods and rites vary locally.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
November 1985 moon phases
Last quarter
Lunar 9/24
New moon
Lunar 10/1
First quarter
Lunar 10/8
Full moon
Lunar 10/16
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
- Yin Earth Goat · 己未— 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 Earth · Jǐ 己 (primary)
- Yin Fire · Dīng 丁 (middle)
- Yin Wood · Yǐ 乙 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yin Fire Pig · 丁亥— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Wood Ox · 乙丑— Wood controls Earth; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Heavenly Fire · 天上火— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Fire.
- Day animal 生肖
- Goat · 羊— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Water Ox · 癸丑— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Girl · 女— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.North palace (北) · Bat creature (蝠) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- Day officer 建除
- Complete · 成— determined by this date’s earthly branch relative to its solar-term month branch.
- Auspicious directions 吉方
- Joy 喜神: Northeast (东北)
- Blessing 福神: North (正北)
- Wealth 财神: North (正北)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against handling agreements, saying both parties may lose.己不破券二比并亡The verse cautions against taking medicine, saying harm may enter the body.未不服药毒气入肠Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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