Chinese Almanac for 2025-01-17
2025-01-17 is Lunar month 12, day 18 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Bing Xu day in the Jia Chen (Dragon) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-01-17 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 12, day 18 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Jia (Yang Wood) Chen (Dragon) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Ding (Yin Fire) Chou (Ox) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Bing (Yang Fire) Xu (Dog) |
| Year zodiac | Dragon |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Perform a purification ritual (解除)
- Avoid all other matters (馀事勿取)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Nothing advised today (诸事不宜)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Sacred Heart (圣心), Azure Dragon (青龙)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Heaven's Net (天罡), Month Punishment (月刑), Five Voids (五虚)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Dragon (Geng Chen day); traditionally best to avoid the North direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Bing (Yang Fire) day: traditionally, the stove is not repaired, as it is said disaster will follow.
Xu (Dog) day: traditionally, dog meat is not eaten, as it is said strange things will happen.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Southwest |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Northwest |
| God of Wealth (财神) | Southwest |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | Southeast |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | West |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Northwest |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-01-17 corresponds to Lunar month 12, 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?
2025-01-17 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