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Chinese calendar, 13 July 2009
13 July 2009 is lunar leap month 5, day 21, 2009, the Earth Ox year. The day pillar is Yin Earth Goat. 14 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waning gibbous.
Monday
July 2009
Lunar date
Leap 5th Month · 21st Day
二〇〇九年闰五月廿一
Year of the
Earth is both the year element and the Ox’s fixed element, so this pairing reinforces Earth.
Moon phase
Lunar day 21 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2009-07-13
The daily almanac & observances
己未 Yin Earth Goat
The stem gives Earth; the branch gives Goat.
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
- Receive funds纳财
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Sculpt or paint sacred images塑绘
- Install machinery安机械
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Meet relatives and friends会亲友
- Cut or make clothes裁衣
- Open a storehouse开仓
- Set up a loom's warp经络
- Acquire livestock纳畜
- Build a livestock enclosure造畜稠
- Train cattle or horses教牛马
- Raise livestock牧养
忌 Traditionally avoid
Medical care should follow clinical need; do not postpone treatment because of an almanac entry.
Leap month 5 · 29 days
23 June 2009–21 July 2009. 8 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Qixi
26 August 2009 · 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 2009 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar leap 5/15
Last quarter
Lunar leap 5/23
New moon
Lunar 6/1
First quarter
Lunar 6/8
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 Goat · 己未— 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 Earth · Jǐ 己 (primary)
- Yin Fire · Dīng 丁 (middle)
- Yin Wood · Yǐ 乙 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yin Metal Goat · 辛未— 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
- Heavenly Fire · 天上火— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Fire.
- Day animal 生肖
- Goat · 羊— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Water Ox · 癸丑— 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: 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 taking medicine, saying harm may enter the body.未不服药毒气入肠Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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