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Chinese calendar, 15 August 2018
15 August 2018 is lunar month 7, day 5, 2018, the Earth Dog year. The day pillar is Yin Earth Rabbit. 13 named Yi activities; 5 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waxing crescent.
Wednesday
August 2018
Lunar date
7th Month · 5th Day
二〇一八年七月初五
Year of the
Earth is both the year element and the Dog’s fixed element, so this pairing reinforces Earth.
Moon phase
Lunar day 5 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2018-08-15
The daily almanac & observances
己卯 Yin Earth Rabbit
The stem gives Earth; the branch gives Rabbit.
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
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Install an incense altar安香
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Open a business or market开市
- Sign a contract立券
- Move into a new home入宅
- Hang a signboard or plaque挂匾
- Build a bridge造桥
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
- Burial安葬
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 7 · 30 days
11 August 2018–9 September 2018. 25 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Qixi
17 August 2018 · 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 2018 moon phases
Last quarter
Lunar 6/24
New moon
Lunar 7/1
First quarter
Lunar 7/8
Full moon
Lunar 7/16
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 Rabbit · 己卯— 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 Wood · Yǐ 乙 (primary)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yang Metal Monkey · 庚申— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Earth Dog · 戊戌— Earth reinforces Earth; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- City-wall Earth · 城头土— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Earth.
- Day animal 生肖
- Rabbit · 兔— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Water Rooster · 癸酉— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Wall · 壁— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.North palace (北) · Yu beast creature (獝) · traditionally favourable (吉)
- Day officer 建除
- Danger · 危— 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 digging a well, saying the water may not be sweet.卯不穿井水泉不香Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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