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Chinese calendar, 9 February 2024
9 February 2024 is lunar month 12, day 30, 2023, the Water Rabbit year. The day pillar is Yin Water Rabbit. 19 named Yi activities; 2 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waning crescent.
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February 2024
Lunar date
12th Month · 30th Day
二〇二三年腊月三十
Year of the
Water generates Wood in the Five Phases, so the year element supports the Rabbit’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 30 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2024-02-09
The daily almanac & observances
癸卯 Yin Water Rabbit
The stem gives Water; 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
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Set up a bed安床
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Travel出行
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Meet relatives and friends会亲友
- Open a business or market开市
- Trade交易
- Sign a contract立券
- Hang a signboard or plaque挂匾
- Move into a new home入宅
- Move residence移徙
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
- Burial安葬
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Dig a well掘井
- Legal proceedings词讼
Month 12 · 30 days
11 January 2024–9 February 2024. This is the final day of the month.
Follow the Moon through this month →Lunar New Year's Eve · 除夕
In China, many families share a reunion dinner and stay up late to greet the new year, while the meal and surrounding rituals vary by region.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
February 2024 moon phases
Last quarter
Lunar 12/24
New moon
Lunar 1/1
First quarter
Lunar 1/7
Full moon
Lunar 1/15
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 Water Rabbit · 癸卯— 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 Fire Tiger · 丙寅— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Water Rabbit · 癸卯— Water generates Wood; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Gold-leaf Metal · 金箔金— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Metal.
- Day animal 生肖
- Rabbit · 兔— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Fire Rooster · 丁酉— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Neck · 亢— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.East palace (东) · Dragon creature (龙) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- Day officer 建除
- Remove · 除— determined by this date’s earthly branch relative to its solar-term month branch.
- Auspicious directions 吉方
- Joy 喜神: Southeast (东南)
- Blessing 福神: Northeast (东北)
- Wealth 财神: South (正南)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against lawsuits, saying one’s case may be weaker than the opponent’s.癸不词讼理弱敌强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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