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Chinese calendar, 25 August 2012
25 August 2012 is lunar month 7, day 9, 2012, the Water Dragon year. The day pillar is Yang Earth Horse. 14 named Yi activities; 8 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waxing gibbous.
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August 2012
Lunar date
7th Month · 9th Day
二〇一二年七月初九
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 9 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2012-08-25
The daily almanac & observances
戊午 Yang Earth Horse
The stem gives Earth; the branch gives Horse.
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
- Pray for children求嗣
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Travel出行
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Set up a bed安床
- Plant crops栽种
- Move a coffin移柩
- Add a member to the household进人口
- Meet relatives and friends会亲友
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 7 · 30 days
17 August 2012–15 September 2012. 21 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Ghost Festival
31 August 2012 · In Hong Kong's Cheung Chau Yu Lan tradition, communities offer food to wandering ghosts and perform rites including burning a Ghost Master effigy; other Yu Lan traditions use different sequences.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
August 2012 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar 6/15
Last quarter
Lunar 6/23
New moon
Lunar 7/1
First quarter
Lunar 7/8
Full moon
Lunar 7/15
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
- Yang Earth Horse · 戊午— 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 Fire · Dīng 丁 (primary)
- Yin Earth · Jǐ 己 (middle)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yang Earth Monkey · 戊申— 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 Fire · 天上火— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Fire.
- Day animal 生肖
- Horse · 马— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Water Rat · 壬子— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Stomach · 胃— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.West palace (西) · Boar creature (彘) · traditionally favourable (吉)
- Day officer 建除
- Open · 开— 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 roofing a house, saying its owner may have to make changes.午不苫盖屋主更张Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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