Chinese Almanac for 2022-09-07

2022-09-07 is Lunar month 8, day 12 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Gui Hai day in the Ren Yin (Tiger) year.

Key facts

Gregorian date 2022-09-07
Lunar date Lunar month 8, day 12
Year (Ganzhi) Ren (Yang Water) Yin (Tiger)
Month (Ganzhi) Ji (Yin Earth) You (Rooster)
Day (Ganzhi) Gui (Yin Water) Hai (Pig)
Year zodiac Tiger
Solar term today White Dew

Auspicious for (宜)

  • Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
  • Sculpt or paint deity images (塑绘)
  • Travel (出行)
  • Perform a purification ritual (解除)
  • Hold a coming-of-age ceremony (冠笄)
  • Cut cloth for tailoring (裁衣)
  • Hang a plaque (挂匾)
  • Build the stove (作灶)
  • Open for business (开市)
  • Dig a pond (开池)
  • Build a latrine (开厕)
  • Repair a wall (补垣)
  • Seal up holes and burrows (塞穴)

Inauspicious for (忌)

  • None (无)

Auspicious spirits (吉神)

Month's Grace (月恩), Four Images (四相), Minister's Day (相日), Post Horse (驿马), Heaven's Empress (天后), Heaven's Shaman (天巫), Blessing Virtue (福德), Essential Peace (要安)

Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)

Five Voids (五虚), Great Havoc (大煞), Double Day (重日), Black Tortoise (元武)

Clash & direction to avoid

Clashes with Snake (Ding Si day); traditionally best to avoid the West direction.

Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos

Gui (Yin Water) day: traditionally, lawsuits are not filed, as it is said one's case will be weak and the opponent strong.

Hai (Pig) day: traditionally, marriages are not held, as it is said it will be unlucky for the groom.

Auspicious directions

God of Joy (喜神) Southeast
God of Fortune (福神) Northeast
God of Wealth (财神) South
Tai Sui (太岁) Northeast
Yang Noble God (阳贵神) Southeast
Yin Noble God (阴贵神) East

What is today's lunar date?

2022-09-07 corresponds to Lunar month 8, day 12 on the traditional Chinese lunar calendar.

What should be avoided on this day?

Traditional almanac sources list the items under Inauspicious for (忌) above as activities best avoided on this day.

Which zodiac year is this day in?

2022-09-07 falls in the Ren Yin year, the year of the Tiger.

Solar terms: astronomical calculation. Daily do's and don'ts, auspicious/inauspicious spirits, clashes, and Peng Zu's taboos: Xieji Bianfangshu (协纪辨方书) tradition, as encoded in lunar-typescript · Last updated 2026-09-11