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Chinese calendar, 23 July 2004
23 July 2004 is lunar month 6, day 7, 2004, the Wood Monkey year. The day pillar is Yin Water Rabbit. 22 named Yi activities; 5 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waxing crescent.
Friday
July 2004
Lunar date
6th Month · 7th Day
二〇〇四年六月初七
Year of the
Metal restrains Wood in the Five Phases, so the Monkey’s fixed element is understood as moderating the year element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 7 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2004-07-23
The daily almanac & observances
癸卯 Yin Water Rabbit
The stem gives Water; 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
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Daoist fasting and offering rites斋醮
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Meet relatives and friends会亲友
- Seek medical care求医
- Treat an illness治病
- Roof or build a house盖屋
- Lay a foundation起基
- Erect pillars竖柱
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Install a door安门
- Install a mortar or mill安碓磑
- Build an embankment筑堤
- Dig a pond开池
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Burial安葬
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Move into a new home入宅
- Open a business or market开市
- Dig a well掘井
- Legal proceedings词讼
- Make a coffin合寿木
Medical care should follow clinical need; do not postpone treatment because of an almanac entry.
Month 6 · 30 days
17 July 2004–15 August 2004. 23 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Qixi
22 August 2004 · 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
July 2004 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar 5/15
Last quarter
Lunar 5/22
New moon
Lunar 6/1
First quarter
Lunar 6/9
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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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 Water Rabbit · 癸卯— 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 Metal Goat · 辛未— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Wood Monkey · 甲申— Metal controls Wood; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Gold-leaf Metal · 金箔金— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Metal.
- Day animal 生肖
- Rabbit · 兔— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Fire Rooster · 丁酉— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Neck · 亢— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.East palace (东) · Dragon creature (龙) · 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: Southeast (东南)
- Blessing 福神: Northeast (东北)
- Wealth 财神: South (正南)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against lawsuits, saying one’s case may be weaker than the opponent’s.癸不词讼理弱敌强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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