Chinese Almanac for 2025-01-09

2025-01-09 is Lunar month 12, day 10 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Wu Yin day in the Jia Chen (Dragon) year.

Key facts

Gregorian date 2025-01-09
Lunar date Lunar month 12, day 10
Year (Ganzhi) Jia (Yang Wood) Chen (Dragon)
Month (Ganzhi) Ding (Yin Fire) Chou (Ox)
Day (Ganzhi) Wu (Yang Earth) Yin (Tiger)
Year zodiac Dragon

Auspicious for (宜)

  • Open for business (开市)
  • Trade (交易)
  • Sign a contract (立券)
  • Hang a plaque (挂匾)
  • Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
  • Perform a purification ritual (解除)
  • Fell trees (伐木)
  • Make roof beams (作梁)
  • Relocate the household fire (出火)
  • Move into a new home (入宅)
  • Move house (移徙)
  • Set up a bed (安床)
  • Dismantle (拆卸)
  • Break ground (动土)
  • Raise the roof beam (上梁)
  • Plant (栽种)
  • Bring in livestock (纳畜)
  • Bury the deceased (安葬)

Inauspicious for (忌)

  • Marry (嫁娶)
  • Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
  • Travel (出行)
  • Acquire property (置产)

Auspicious spirits (吉神)

Hour's Virtue (时德), Minister's Day (相日), Auspicious Period (吉期), Jade Hall (玉堂), Five Harmony (五合), Golden Chest (金匮)

Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)

Robbery Star (劫煞), Heaven's Thief (天贼), Five Voids (五虚)

Clash & direction to avoid

Clashes with Monkey (Ren Shen day); traditionally best to avoid the North 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.

Yin (Tiger) day: traditionally, sacrifices are not offered, as it is said the spirits will not partake.

Auspicious directions

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

What is today's lunar date?

2025-01-09 corresponds to Lunar month 12, day 10 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?

2025-01-09 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