Chinese Almanac for 2023-11-08
2023-11-08 is Lunar month 9, day 25 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Geng Wu day in the Gui Mao (Rabbit) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2023-11-08 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 9, day 25 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Gui (Yin Water) Mao (Rabbit) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Gui (Yin Water) Hai (Pig) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Geng (Yang Metal) Wu (Horse) |
| Year zodiac | Rabbit |
| Solar term today | Start of Winter |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Perform a purification ritual (解除)
- Pray for blessings (祈福)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Sculpt or paint deity images (塑绘)
- Hold a Taoist purification rite (斋醮)
- Hold an engagement ceremony (订盟)
- Present betrothal gifts (纳采)
- Cut cloth for tailoring (裁衣)
- Hold a coming-of-age ceremony (冠笄)
- Dismantle (拆卸)
- Renovate and build (修造)
- Break ground (动土)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
- End mourning (除服)
- Put on mourning clothes (成服)
- Move the coffin (移柩)
- Exhume for reburial (启钻)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- Take office (赴任)
- Travel (出行)
- Move house (移徙)
- Erect pillars (竖柱)
- Raise the roof beam (上梁)
- Fell trees (伐木)
- Plant (栽种)
- Break ground for burial (破土)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Bring in livestock (纳畜)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Build a roof (盖屋)
- Treat illness (治病)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Heaven's Virtue Combination (天德合), Month Void (月空), Not Leading — Favorable for Marriage (不将), Universal Protection (普护), Azure Dragon (青龙), Barking Dog (鸣吠)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Heaven's Officer (天吏), Fatal Star (致死), Five Voids (五虚)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Rat (Jia Zi day); traditionally best to avoid the North direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Geng (Yang Metal) day: traditionally, looms are not set up, as it is said the work will come to nothing.
Wu (Horse) day: traditionally, roofs are not thatched, as it is said the owner's fortune will change.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Northwest |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Southwest |
| God of Wealth (财神) | East |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | East |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | South |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Northeast |
What is today's lunar date?
2023-11-08 corresponds to Lunar month 9, day 25 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?
2023-11-08 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