Chinese Almanac for 2023-11-12

2023-11-12 is Lunar month 9, day 29 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Jia Xu day in the Gui Mao (Rabbit) year.

Key facts

Gregorian date 2023-11-12
Lunar date Lunar month 9, day 29
Year (Ganzhi) Gui (Yin Water) Mao (Rabbit)
Month (Ganzhi) Gui (Yin Water) Hai (Pig)
Day (Ganzhi) Jia (Yang Wood) Xu (Dog)
Year zodiac Rabbit

Auspicious for (宜)

  • Pray for blessings (祈福)
  • Hold a Taoist purification rite (斋醮)
  • Travel (出行)
  • Hold an engagement ceremony (订盟)
  • Present betrothal gifts (纳采)
  • Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
  • Move the coffin (移柩)
  • Break ground for burial (破土)
  • Bury the deceased (安葬)
  • Erect a tombstone (立碑)
  • Make fishing nets (结网)

Inauspicious for (忌)

  • Move into a new home (入宅)
  • Build the stove (作灶)

Auspicious spirits (吉神)

Month's Virtue (月德), Four Images (四相), Benefiting Descendants (益后), Golden Chest (金匮)

Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)

Month Havoc (月煞), Month Emptiness (月虚), Blood Branch (血支), Five Voids (五虚), Eight Winds (八风)

Clash & direction to avoid

Clashes with Dragon (Wu Chen day); traditionally best to avoid the North direction.

Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos

Jia (Yang Wood) day: traditionally, warehouses are not opened, as it is said wealth will be squandered.

Xu (Dog) day: traditionally, dog meat is not eaten, as it is said strange things will happen.

Auspicious directions

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

What is today's lunar date?

2023-11-12 corresponds to Lunar month 9, 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?

2023-11-12 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