Chinese Almanac for 2025-02-09
2025-02-09 is Lunar month 1, day 12 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Ji You day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-02-09 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 1, day 12 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Wu (Yang Earth) Yin (Tiger) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Ji (Yin Earth) You (Rooster) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Pray for blessings (祈福)
- Pray for offspring (求嗣)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Relocate the household fire (出火)
- Travel (出行)
- Dismantle (拆卸)
- Renovate and build (修造)
- Break ground (动土)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Move house (移徙)
- Raise the roof beam (上梁)
- Hang a plaque (挂匾)
- Dig a pond (开池)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Break ground for burial (破土)
- Exhume for reburial (启钻)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Build the stove (作灶)
- Set up a bed (安床)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Heaven's Grace (天恩), Yin Virtue (阴德), Blessing Birth (福生), Removing Spirit (除神), Barking Dog (鸣吠)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Heaven's Officer (天吏), Fatal Star (致死), Five Voids (五虚), Five Separations (五离), Black Tortoise (元武)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Rabbit (Gui Mao day); traditionally best to avoid the East direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Ji (Yin Earth) day: traditionally, contracts are not torn up, as it is said both parties will suffer loss.
You (Rooster) day: traditionally, guests are not entertained, as it is said drunkenness will lead to madness.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Northeast |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | North |
| God of Wealth (财神) | North |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | Southeast |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | North |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Southwest |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-02-09 corresponds to Lunar month 1, day 12 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?
2025-02-09 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