Chinese Almanac for 2024-06-09
2024-06-09 is Lunar month 5, day 4 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Jia Chen day in the Jia Chen (Dragon) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2024-06-09 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 5, day 4 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Jia (Yang Wood) Chen (Dragon) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Geng (Yang Metal) Wu (Horse) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Jia (Yang Wood) Chen (Dragon) |
| Year zodiac | Dragon |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Pray for blessings (祈福)
- Pray for offspring (求嗣)
- Travel (出行)
- Perform a purification ritual (解除)
- Fell trees (伐木)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Move house (移徙)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- Relocate the household fire (出火)
- Dismantle (拆卸)
- Renovate and build (修造)
- Raise the roof beam (上梁)
- Plant (栽种)
- Move the coffin (移柩)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Open for business (开市)
- Trade (交易)
- Sign a contract (立券)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Hour's Virtue (时德), Hour's Yang (时阳), Vital Energy (生气), Essential Peace (要安)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Five Voids (五虚), Eight Winds (八风), Nine Voids (九空), Earth Pouch (地囊), Heaven's Prison (天牢)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Dog (Wu Xu day); traditionally best to avoid the South direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Jia (Yang Wood) day: traditionally, warehouses are not opened, as it is said wealth will be squandered.
Chen (Dragon) day: traditionally, weeping is avoided, as it is said to foretell a second death in the family.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Northeast |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | North |
| God of Wealth (财神) | Northeast |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | West |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | Southwest |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Northeast |
What is today's lunar date?
2024-06-09 corresponds to Lunar month 5, day 4 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?
2024-06-09 falls in the Jia Chen year, the year of the Dragon.
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