Daily calendar conversion
Chinese calendar, 8 August 2008
8 August 2008 is lunar month 7, day 8, 2008, the Earth Rat year. The day pillar is Yang Metal Dragon. 20 named Yi activities; 6 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waxing crescent.
Friday
August 2008
Lunar date
7th Month · 8th Day
二〇〇八年七月初八
Year of the
Earth restrains Water in the Five Phases, so the year element is understood as moderating the Rat’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 8 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2008-08-08
The daily almanac & observances
庚辰 Yang Metal Dragon
The stem gives Metal; the branch gives Dragon.
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
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Daoist fasting and offering rites斋醮
- Offer rites for wandering spirits普渡
- Move residence移徙
- Move into a new home入宅
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Treat an illness治病
- Open a business or market开市
- Trade交易
- Sign a contract立券
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Build or renovate修造
- Build a vehicle or carriage造车器
- Install an incense altar安香
- Set up a bed安床
- Trap or capture捕捉
- Hunt畋猎
- Make fishing nets结网
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Set up a loom's warp经络
- Hold funeral rites行丧
- Burial安葬
- Visit the sick探病
Medical care should follow clinical need; do not postpone treatment because of an almanac entry.
Month 7 · 30 days
1 August 2008–30 August 2008. 22 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Ghost Festival
15 August 2008 · In Hong Kong's Cheung Chau Yu Lan tradition, communities offer food to wandering ghosts and perform rites including burning a Ghost Master effigy; other Yu Lan traditions use different sequences.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
August 2008 moon phases
New moon
Lunar 7/1
First quarter
Lunar 7/9
Full moon
Lunar 7/17
Last quarter
Lunar 7/24
New moon
Lunar 8/1
Calculated phase moments use fixed UTC+8. A lunar day number and a Moon phase describe different things. How they fit together →
The surrounding month
Explore the days around 8 August 2008
Select a day to update its quick overview. Today, the selected date and festivals have separate markers.
| SunSunday | MonMonday | TueTuesday | WedWednesday | ThuThursday | FriFriday | SatSaturday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Each cell shows the Gregorian day above its lunar month/day. Select any day to update the quick overview, then open its full reading for more detail.
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 Metal Dragon · 庚辰— 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 Earth · Wù 戊 (primary)
- Yin Wood · Yǐ 乙 (middle)
- Yin Water · Guǐ 癸 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yang Metal Monkey · 庚申— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Earth Rat · 戊子— Earth controls Water; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- White Wax Metal · 白蜡金— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Metal.
- Day animal 生肖
- Dragon · 龙— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Wood Dog · 甲戌— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Ghost · 鬼— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.South palace (南) · Goat creature (羊) · 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: Northwest (西北)
- Blessing 福神: Southwest (西南)
- Wealth 财神: East (正东)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against setting warp and weft, saying the loom may stand empty.庚不经络织机虚张The verse cautions against weeping, saying another bereavement may follow.辰不哭泣必主重丧Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
Keep the result
Share this conversion
Use the result
Plan another date
8 August 2008 corresponds to lunar year 2008, month 7, day 8, in the 戊子 year — the Year of the Rat. You can enter another date in the date converter.
A solar term is one of twenty-four seasonal divisions of the year. The Moon phase follows the astronomical cycle independently of the numbered lunar day.
Looking for a date-selection overview? The almanac guide introduces the calendar’s auspicious-date tools and terminology.