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Chinese calendar, 18 January 2012
18 January 2012 is lunar month 12, day 25, 2011, the Metal Rabbit year. The day pillar is Yang Earth Tiger. 18 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waning crescent.
Wednesday
January 2012
Lunar date
12th Month · 25th Day
二〇一一年腊月廿五
Year of the
Metal restrains Wood in the Five Phases, so the year element is understood as moderating the Rabbit’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 25 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2012-01-18
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 12 · 29 days
25 December 2011–22 January 2012. 4 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Lunar New Year's Eve
22 January 2012 · In China, many families share a reunion dinner and stay up late to greet the new year, while the meal and surrounding rituals vary by region.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
January 2012 moon phases
First quarter
Lunar 12/8
Full moon
Lunar 12/16
Last quarter
Lunar 12/23
New moon
Lunar 1/1
First quarter
Lunar 1/9
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
- 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 Metal Ox · 辛丑— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Metal Rabbit · 辛卯— Metal controls Wood; 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
- Three Stars · 参— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.West palace (西) · Ape creature (猿) · traditionally favourable (吉)
- 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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