Chinese Almanac for 2023-02-19

2023-02-19 is Lunar month 1, day 29 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Wu Shen day in the Gui Mao (Rabbit) year.

Key facts

Gregorian date 2023-02-19
Lunar date Lunar month 1, day 29
Year (Ganzhi) Gui (Yin Water) Mao (Rabbit)
Month (Ganzhi) Jia (Yang Wood) Yin (Tiger)
Day (Ganzhi) Wu (Yang Earth) Shen (Monkey)
Year zodiac Rabbit
Solar term today Rain Water

Auspicious for (宜)

  • Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
  • Perform a purification ritual (解除)
  • Treat illness (治病)
  • Demolish a house (破屋)
  • Demolish a wall (坏垣)
  • Sweep the house (扫舍)

Inauspicious for (忌)

  • Avoid all other matters (馀事勿取)

Auspicious spirits (吉神)

Post Horse (驿马), Heaven's Empress (天后), Universal Protection (普护), Untying Spirit (解神), Removing Spirit (除神)

Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)

Month Breaker (月破), Great Depletion (大耗), Five Separations (五离), Heaven's Prison (天牢)

Clash & direction to avoid

Clashes with Tiger (Ren Yin day); traditionally best to avoid the South direction.

Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos

Wu (Yang Earth) day: traditionally, land is not accepted, as it is said to be inauspicious for the landowner.

Shen (Monkey) day: traditionally, beds are not set up, as it is said spirits will enter the room.

Auspicious directions

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

What is today's lunar date?

2023-02-19 corresponds to Lunar month 1, day 29 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?

2023-02-19 falls in the Gui Mao year, the year of the Rabbit.

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