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Chinese calendar, 30 September 2015
30 September 2015 is lunar month 8, day 18, 2015, the Wood Goat year. The day pillar is Yin Earth Rooster. 2 named Yi activities; 6 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waning gibbous.
Wednesday
September 2015
Lunar date
8th Month · 18th Day
二〇一五年八月十八
Year of the
Wood restrains Earth in the Five Phases, so the year element is understood as moderating the Goat’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 18 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2015-09-30
The daily almanac & observances
己酉 Yin Earth Rooster
The stem gives Earth; the branch gives Rooster.
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
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Move into a new home入宅
- Build or renovate修造
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Meet relatives and friends会亲友
- Begin burial excavation破土
Month 8 · 30 days
13 September 2015–12 October 2015. 12 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Double Ninth Festival
21 October 2015 · In Hong Kong, families may visit ancestral graves or hike and picnic in the hills on Chung Yeung, while observance varies across communities.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
September 2015 moon phases
Last quarter
Lunar 7/23
New moon
Lunar 8/1
First quarter
Lunar 8/9
Full moon
Lunar 8/16
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 Rooster · 己酉— 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 Metal · Xīn 辛 (primary)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yin Wood Rooster · 乙酉— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Wood Goat · 乙未— Wood controls Earth; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Great Post-road Earth · 大驿土— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Earth.
- Day animal 生肖
- Rooster · 鸡— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Water Rabbit · 癸卯— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Chariot · 轸— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.South palace (南) · Earthworm creature (蚓) · 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 receiving guests, saying drunken disorder may follow.酉不会客醉坐颠狂Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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