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Chinese calendar, 17 June 2017
17 June 2017 is lunar month 5, day 23, 2017, the Fire Rooster year. The day pillar is Yin Wood Pig. 21 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; last quarter.
Saturday
June 2017
Lunar date
5th Month · 23rd Day
二〇一七年五月廿三
Year of the
Fire restrains Metal in the Five Phases, so the year element is understood as moderating the Rooster’s fixed element.
Moon phase
19:33 · UTC+8
Daily almanac · 2017-06-17
The daily almanac & observances
乙亥 Yin Wood Pig
The stem gives Wood; the branch gives Pig.
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
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Daoist fasting and offering rites斋醮
- Travel出行
- Build or renovate修造
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Move residence移徙
- Move into a new home入宅
- Install an incense altar安香
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Roof or build a house盖屋
- Lay a foundation起基
- Erect pillars竖柱
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Set foundation stones定磉
- Install a door安门
- Dig a pond开池
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Open a business or market开市
- Make a coffin合寿木
- Burial安葬
Month 5 · 29 days
26 May 2017–23 June 2017. 6 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Qixi
28 August 2017 · 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
June 2017 moon phases
First quarter
Lunar 5/7
Full moon
Lunar 5/15
Last quarter
Lunar 5/23
New moon
Lunar 6/1
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 Wood Pig · 乙亥— 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 Water · Rén 壬 (primary)
- Yang Wood · Jiǎ 甲 (middle)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yang Fire Horse · 丙午— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Fire Rooster · 丁酉— Fire controls Metal; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Mountain-top Fire · 山头火— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Fire.
- Day animal 生肖
- Pig · 猪— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Earth Snake · 己巳— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Girl · 女— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.North palace (北) · Bat creature (蝠) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- Day officer 建除
- Hold · 执— determined by this date’s earthly branch relative to its solar-term month branch.
- Auspicious directions 吉方
- Joy 喜神: Northwest (西北)
- Blessing 福神: Southwest (西南)
- Wealth 财神: Northeast (东北)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against planting, saying even many plants may not grow.乙不栽植千株不长The verse cautions against marriage, saying it may disadvantage the groom.亥不嫁娶不利新郎Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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