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Chinese calendar, 3 August 2025
3 August 2025 is lunar leap month 6, day 10, 2025, the Wood Snake year. The day pillar is Yang Wood Dragon. 24 named Yi activities; 6 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waxing gibbous.
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August 2025
Lunar date
Leap 6th Month · 10th Day
二〇二五年闰六月初十
Year of the
Wood generates Fire in the Five Phases, so the year element supports the Snake’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 10 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2025-08-03
The daily almanac & observances
甲辰 Yang Wood Dragon
The stem gives Wood; the branch gives Dragon.
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
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- 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
- Sculpt or paint sacred images塑绘
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Install an incense altar安香
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Meet relatives and friends会亲友
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Begin school入学
- Erect pillars竖柱
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Roof or build a house盖屋
- Lay a foundation起基
- Plant crops栽种
- Raise livestock牧养
- Acquire livestock纳畜
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Burial安葬
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Open a business or market开市
- Open a storehouse开仓
- Dispatch goods or funds出货财
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
Leap month 6 · 29 days
25 July 2025–22 August 2025. 19 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Qixi
29 August 2025 · 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 2025 moon phases
First quarter
Lunar leap 6/8
Full moon
Lunar leap 6/16
Last quarter
Lunar leap 6/23
New moon
Lunar 7/1
First quarter
Lunar 7/9
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 3 August 2025
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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 Wood Dragon · 甲辰— 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 Wood · Yǐ 乙 (middle)
- Yin Water · Guǐ 癸 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yin Water Goat · 癸未— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Wood Snake · 乙巳— Wood generates Fire; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Covered-lamp Fire · 覆灯火— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Fire.
- Day animal 生肖
- Dragon · 龙— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Earth Dog · 戊戌— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Emptiness · 虚— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.North palace (北) · Rat creature (鼠) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- Day officer 建除
- Receive · 收— 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: Northeast (东北)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against opening a storehouse, saying possessions may be lost.甲不开仓财物耗散The verse cautions against weeping, saying another bereavement may follow.辰不哭泣必主重丧Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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