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Chinese calendar, 15 June 2012
15 June 2012 is lunar leap month 4, day 26, 2012, the Water Dragon year. The day pillar is Yin Fire Goat. 17 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waning crescent.
Friday
June 2012
Lunar date
Leap 4th Month · 26th Day
二〇一二年闰四月廿六
Year of the
Earth restrains Water in the Five Phases, so the Dragon’s fixed element is understood as moderating the year element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 26 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2012-06-15
The daily almanac & observances
丁未 Yin Fire Goat
The stem gives Fire; 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
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Pray for children求嗣
- Travel出行
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Open a business or market开市
- Trade交易
- Sign a contract立券
- Hang a signboard or plaque挂匾
- Move into a new home入宅
- Move residence移徙
- Set up a bed安床
- Plant crops栽种
- Begin construction earthworks动土
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Burial安葬
- Hold funeral rites行丧
- Fell timber伐木
- Make structural beams作梁
Leap month 4 · 29 days
21 May 2012–18 June 2012. 3 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Dragon Boat Festival
23 June 2012 · In communities especially around the middle and lower Yangtze, observances may combine local memorial rites, dragon-boat sports and rice-dumpling feasts; even the honoured hero varies by region.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
June 2012 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar leap 4/15
Last quarter
Lunar leap 4/22
New moon
Lunar 5/1
First quarter
Lunar 5/9
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 Fire Goat · 丁未— 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
- Yang Fire Horse · 丙午— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Water Dragon · 壬辰— Earth controls Water; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Heavenly River Water · 天河水— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Water.
- Day animal 生肖
- Goat · 羊— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Metal Ox · 辛丑— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Neck · 亢— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.East palace (东) · Dragon creature (龙) · 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: 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 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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