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Chinese calendar, 3 August 2017
3 August 2017 is lunar leap month 6, day 12, 2017, the Fire Rooster year. The day pillar is Yang Water Dog. 7 named Yi activities; 0 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waxing gibbous.
Thursday
August 2017
Lunar date
Leap 6th Month · 12th Day
二〇一七年闰六月十二
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
Lunar day 12 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2017-08-03
The daily almanac & observances
壬戌 Yang Water Dog
The stem gives Water; the branch gives Dog.
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
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Trap or capture捕捉
- Make fishing nets结网
- Hunt畋猎
- Fish取渔
- No other activities recommended馀事勿取
忌 Traditionally avoid
- None listed无
Leap month 6 · 30 days
23 July 2017–21 August 2017. 18 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
August 2017 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar leap 6/17
Last quarter
Lunar leap 6/24
New moon
Lunar 7/1
First quarter
Lunar 7/8
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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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 Water Dog · 壬戌— 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 Earth · Wù 戊 (primary)
- Yin Metal · Xīn 辛 (middle)
- Yin Fire · Dīng 丁 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yin Fire Goat · 丁未— 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
- Great Sea Water · 大海水— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Water.
- Day animal 生肖
- Dog · 狗— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Fire Dragon · 丙辰— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Horn · 角— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.East palace (东) · Flood dragon creature (蛟) · traditionally favourable (吉)
- Day officer 建除
- Balance · 平— 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: South (正南)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against drawing water, saying trouble may be hard to guard against.壬不泱水更难提防The verse cautions against eating dog meat, saying strange disturbances may reach the bed.戌不吃犬作怪上床Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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