Chinese Almanac for 2023-11-01

2023-11-01 is Lunar month 9, day 18 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Gui Hai day in the Gui Mao (Rabbit) year.

Key facts

Gregorian date 2023-11-01
Lunar date Lunar month 9, day 18
Year (Ganzhi) Gui (Yin Water) Mao (Rabbit)
Month (Ganzhi) Ren (Yang Water) Xu (Dog)
Day (Ganzhi) Gui (Yin Water) Hai (Pig)
Year zodiac Rabbit

Auspicious for (宜)

  • Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
  • Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
  • Travel (出行)
  • Perform a purification ritual (解除)
  • Get a haircut (理发)
  • Fell trees (伐木)
  • Relocate the household fire (出火)
  • Dismantle (拆卸)
  • Raise the roof beam (上梁)
  • Close the roof ridge (合脊)
  • Set up a bed (安床)
  • Build a livestock pen (造畜稠)

Inauspicious for (忌)

  • Marry (嫁娶)
  • Bury the deceased (安葬)
  • Hold a funeral procession (行丧)
  • File a lawsuit (词讼)
  • Build a bridge (造桥)
  • Build the stove (作灶)
  • Break ground for burial (破土)
  • Break ground (动土)

Auspicious spirits (吉神)

Four Images (四相), Minister's Day (相日), Auspicious Period (吉期), Five Riches (五富), Reverent Peace (敬安), Jade Hall (玉堂)

Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)

Robbery Star (劫煞), Five Voids (五虚), Earth Talisman (土符), Double Day (重日)

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) East
Yang Noble God (阳贵神) Southeast
Yin Noble God (阴贵神) East

What is today's lunar date?

2023-11-01 corresponds to Lunar month 9, day 18 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?

2023-11-01 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