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Chinese calendar, 2 February 2009
2 February 2009 is lunar month 1, day 8, 2009, the Earth Ox year. The day pillar is Yang Earth Tiger. 18 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waxing crescent.
Monday
February 2009
Lunar date
1st Month · 8th Day
二〇〇九年正月初八
Year of the
Earth is both the year element and the Ox’s fixed element, so this pairing reinforces Earth.
Moon phase
Lunar day 8 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2009-02-02
The daily almanac & observances
戊寅 Yang Earth Tiger
The stem gives Earth; the branch gives Tiger.
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
- Open a business or market开市
- Trade交易
- Sign a contract立券
- Hang a signboard or plaque挂匾
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Fell timber伐木
- Make structural beams作梁
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Move into a new home入宅
- Move residence移徙
- Set up a bed安床
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Plant crops栽种
- Acquire livestock纳畜
- Burial安葬
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Travel出行
- Acquire property置产
Month 1 · 30 days
26 January 2009–24 February 2009. 22 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Lantern Festival
9 February 2009 · In Shanghai and many other Chinese communities, people may view lantern displays, solve lantern riddles and eat yuanxiao or tangyuan, with recipes and events varying by place.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
February 2009 moon phases
First quarter
Lunar 1/9
Full moon
Lunar 1/15
Last quarter
Lunar 1/23
New moon
Lunar 2/1
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 2 February 2009
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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 Tiger · 戊寅— 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 Wood · Jiǎ 甲 (primary)
- Yang Fire · Bǐng 丙 (middle)
- Yang Earth · Wù 戊 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yin Wood Ox · 乙丑— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Earth Ox · 己丑— Earth reinforces Earth; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- City-wall Earth · 城头土— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Earth.
- Day animal 生肖
- Tiger · 虎— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Water Monkey · 壬申— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Heart · 心— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.East palace (东) · Fox creature (狐) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- Day officer 建除
- Remove · 除— 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 ritual offerings, saying spirits may not receive them.寅不祭祀神鬼不尝Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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