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Chinese calendar, 12 June 1990
12 June 1990 is lunar month 5, day 20, 1990, the Metal Horse year. The day pillar is Yang Earth Monkey. 21 named Yi activities; 2 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waning gibbous.
Tuesday
June 1990
Lunar date
5th Month · 20th Day
一九九〇年五月二十
Year of the
Fire restrains Metal in the Five Phases, so the Horse’s fixed element is understood as moderating the year element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 20 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1990-06-12
The daily almanac & observances
戊申 Yang Earth Monkey
The stem gives Earth; the branch gives Monkey.
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
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Pray for children求嗣
- Travel出行
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Fell timber伐木
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Build or renovate修造
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Lay a foundation起基
- Move into a new home入宅
- Move residence移徙
- Open a business or market开市
- Trade交易
- Sign a contract立券
- Plant crops栽种
- Raise livestock牧养
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- Burial安葬
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Acquire property置产
- Set up a bed安床
Month 5 · 30 days
24 May 1990–22 June 1990. 10 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Qixi
26 August 1990 · 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
June 1990 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar 5/16
Last quarter
Lunar 5/24
New moon
Lunar leap 5/1
First quarter
Lunar leap 5/8
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 Earth Monkey · 戊申— 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.
- Yang Metal · Gēng 庚 (primary)
- Yang Water · Rén 壬 (middle)
- Yang Earth · Wù 戊 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yang Water Horse · 壬午— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Metal Horse · 庚午— Fire controls Metal; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Great Post-road Earth · 大驿土— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Earth.
- Day animal 生肖
- Monkey · 猴— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Water Tiger · 壬寅— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Wings · 翼— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.South palace (南) · Snake creature (蛇) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- Day officer 建除
- Full · 满— determined by this date’s earthly branch relative to its solar-term month branch.
- Auspicious directions 吉方
- Joy 喜神: Southeast (东南)
- Blessing 福神: Northeast (东北)
- Wealth 财神: North (正北)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against accepting land, saying it may be inauspicious for the owner.戊不受田田主不祥The verse cautions against positioning a bed, saying spirits may enter the room.申不安床鬼祟入房Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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