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Chinese calendar, 18 June 2019
18 June 2019 is lunar month 5, day 16, 2019, the Earth Pig year. The day pillar is Yang Fire Dog. 24 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waning gibbous.
Tuesday
June 2019
Lunar date
5th Month · 16th Day
二〇一九年五月十六
Year of the
Earth restrains Water in the Five Phases, so the year element is understood as moderating the Pig’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 16 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2019-06-18
The daily almanac & observances
丙戌 Yang Fire Dog
The stem gives Fire; 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
- Install machinery安机械
- Move residence移徙
- Move into a new home入宅
- Travel出行
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Daoist fasting and offering rites斋醮
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Install an incense altar安香
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Meet relatives and friends会亲友
- Build or renovate修造
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Lay a foundation起基
- Set foundation stones定磉
- Roof or build a house盖屋
- Set up a bed安床
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Burial安葬
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- Erect a memorial stone立碑
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 5 · 30 days
3 June 2019–2 July 2019. 14 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Qixi
7 August 2019 · 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 2019 moon phases
New moon
Lunar 5/1
First quarter
Lunar 5/8
Full moon
Lunar 5/15
Last quarter
Lunar 5/23
Calculated phase moments use fixed UTC+8. A lunar day number and a Moon phase describe different things. How they fit together →
The surrounding month
Explore the days around 18 June 2019
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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 Fire Dog · 丙戌— 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
- Yang Metal Horse · 庚午— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Earth Pig · 己亥— Earth controls Water; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Roof Earth · 屋上土— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Earth.
- Day animal 生肖
- Dog · 狗— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Metal Dragon · 庚辰— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Encampment · 室— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.North palace (北) · Pig creature (猪) · traditionally favourable (吉)
- Day officer 建除
- Settle · 定— determined by this date’s earthly branch relative to its solar-term month branch.
- Auspicious directions 吉方
- Joy 喜神: Southwest (西南)
- Blessing 福神: Northwest (西北)
- Wealth 财神: Southwest (西南)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against repairing a stove, saying misfortune may follow.丙不修灶必见灾殃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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