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Chinese calendar, 23 March 2009
23 March 2009 is lunar month 2, day 27, 2009, the Earth Ox year. The day pillar is Yin Fire Rabbit. 22 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waning crescent.
Monday
March 2009
Lunar date
2nd Month · 27th Day
二〇〇九年二月廿七
Year of the
Earth is both the year element and the Ox’s fixed element, so this pairing reinforces Earth.
Moon phase
Lunar day 27 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2009-03-23
The daily almanac & observances
丁卯 Yin Fire Rabbit
The stem gives Fire; 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
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Sculpt or paint sacred images塑绘
- Give thanks to deities酬神
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Cut or make clothes裁衣
- Set up a bed安床
- Open a business or market开市
- Sign a contract立券
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
- Move a coffin移柩
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
- Burial安葬
- Erect a memorial stone立碑
- Take up a post赴任
- Meet relatives and friends会亲友
- Travel出行
- Trade交易
- Erect pillars竖柱
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 2 · 30 days
25 February 2009–26 March 2009. 3 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Qingming Festival
4 April 2009 · 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 2009 moon phases
First quarter
Lunar 2/8
Full moon
Lunar 2/15
Last quarter
Lunar 2/23
New moon
Lunar 3/1
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
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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 Fire Rabbit · 丁卯— 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 Fire Rabbit · 丁卯— 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
- Furnace Fire · 炉中火— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Fire.
- Day animal 生肖
- Rabbit · 兔— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Metal Rooster · 辛酉— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Extended Net · 张— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.South palace (南) · Deer creature (鹿) · 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: South (正南)
- Blessing 福神: Southeast (东南)
- Wealth 财神: Southwest (西南)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against cutting hair, saying sores may appear.丁不剃头头必生疮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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