Chinese Almanac for 2025-02-05
2025-02-05 is Lunar month 1, day 8 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Yi Si day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-02-05 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 1, day 8 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Wu (Yang Earth) Yin (Tiger) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Build the stove (作灶)
- Perform a purification ritual (解除)
- Level roads (平治道涂)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Plant (栽种)
- Travel (出行)
- Pray for blessings (祈福)
- Hold a funeral procession (行丧)
- Bring in livestock (纳畜)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Install a door (安门)
- Fell trees (伐木)
- Make roof beams (作梁)
- Raise livestock (牧养)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Minister's Day (相日), Precious Light (宝光)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Heaven's Net (天罡), Death God (死神), Month Punishment (月刑), Month Harm (月害), Wandering Calamity (游祸), Five Voids (五虚), Double Day (重日)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Pig (Ji Hai day); traditionally best to avoid the East direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Yi (Yin Wood) day: traditionally, planting is avoided, as it is said a thousand saplings will not grow.
Si (Snake) day: traditionally, long journeys are avoided, as it is said belongings will be lost or hidden.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Northwest |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Southwest |
| God of Wealth (财神) | Northeast |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | West |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | Southwest |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | North |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-02-05 corresponds to Lunar month 1, day 8 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?
2025-02-05 falls in the Yi Si year, the year of the Snake.
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