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Chinese calendar, 15 May 2007
15 May 2007 is lunar month 3, day 29, 2007, the Fire Pig year. The day pillar is Yin Earth Rooster. 20 named Yi activities; 3 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waning crescent.
Tuesday
May 2007
Lunar date
3rd Month · 29th Day
二〇〇七年三月廿九
Year of the
Water restrains Fire in the Five Phases, so the Pig’s fixed element is understood as moderating the year element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 29 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2007-05-15
The daily almanac & observances
己酉 Yin Earth Rooster
The stem gives Earth; 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
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Daoist fasting and offering rites斋醮
- Pray for children求嗣
- Install machinery安机械
- Acquire livestock纳畜
- Move residence移徙
- Move into a new home入宅
- Sculpt or paint sacred images塑绘
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Lay a foundation起基
- Erect pillars竖柱
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Build or install a stove作灶
- Install a door安门
- Install an incense altar安香
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Roof or build a house盖屋
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
- Burial安葬
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 3 · 30 days
17 April 2007–16 May 2007. 1 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Dragon Boat Festival
19 June 2007 · In communities especially around the middle and lower Yangtze, observances may combine local memorial rites, dragon-boat sports and rice-dumpling feasts; even the honoured hero varies by region.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
May 2007 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar 3/16
Last quarter
Lunar 3/24
New moon
Lunar 4/1
First quarter
Lunar 4/8
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
- Yin Earth Rooster · 己酉— 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
- Yin Wood Snake · 乙巳— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Fire Pig · 丁亥— Water controls Fire; 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
- Rooster · 鸡— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Water Rabbit · 癸卯— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Turtle Beak · 觜— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.West palace (西) · Monkey creature (猴) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- Day officer 建除
- Settle · 定— 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 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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