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Chinese calendar, 19 March 2003
19 March 2003 is lunar month 2, day 17, 2003, the Water Goat year. The day pillar is Yin Metal Rabbit. 16 named Yi activities; 3 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waning gibbous.
Wednesday
March 2003
Lunar date
2nd Month · 17th Day
二〇〇三年二月十七
Year of the
Earth restrains Water in the Five Phases, so the Goat’s fixed element is understood as moderating the year element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 17 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2003-03-19
The daily almanac & observances
辛卯 Yin Metal Rabbit
The stem gives Metal; the branch gives Rabbit.
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
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Pray for children求嗣
- Daoist fasting and offering rites斋醮
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Travel出行
- Open a business or market开市
- Trade交易
- Meet relatives and friends会亲友
- Train cattle or horses教牛马
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
- Burial安葬
- Move a coffin移柩
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 2 · 30 days
3 March 2003–1 April 2003. 13 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Qingming Festival
5 April 2003 · In China, Qingming is commonly marked by tending graves and honouring ancestors, while spring outings form another long-standing strand of the day.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
March 2003 moon phases
New moon
Lunar 2/1
First quarter
Lunar 2/9
Full moon
Lunar 2/16
Last quarter
Lunar 2/23
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 Metal Rabbit · 辛卯— 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 Wood · Yǐ 乙 (primary)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yin Wood Rabbit · 乙卯— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Water Goat · 癸未— Earth controls Water; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Pine and Cypress Wood · 松柏木— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Wood.
- Day animal 生肖
- Rabbit · 兔— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Wood Rooster · 乙酉— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Wall · 壁— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.North palace (北) · Yu beast creature (獝) · traditionally favourable (吉)
- Day officer 建除
- Establish · 建— determined by this date’s earthly branch relative to its solar-term month branch.
- Auspicious directions 吉方
- Joy 喜神: Southwest (西南)
- Blessing 福神: Northwest (西北)
- Wealth 财神: East (正东)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against making sauce, saying the household may not taste it.辛不合酱主人不尝The verse cautions against digging a well, saying the water may not be sweet.卯不穿井水泉不香Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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