Chinese Almanac for 2025-02-12
2025-02-12 is Lunar month 1, day 15 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Ren Zi day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-02-12 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 1, day 15 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Wu (Yang Earth) Yin (Tiger) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Ren (Yang Water) Zi (Rat) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Pray for blessings (祈福)
- Pray for offspring (求嗣)
- Perform a purification ritual (解除)
- Break ground (动土)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- Plant (栽种)
- Dig a pond (开池)
- Dig a well (掘井)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Break ground for burial (破土)
- Exhume for reburial (启钻)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Build the stove (作灶)
- Fell trees (伐木)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Relocate the household fire (出火)
- Travel (出行)
- Bring in livestock (纳畜)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Heaven's Virtue Combination (天德合), Month Void (月空), Heaven's Grace (天恩), Mother's Granary (母仓), Hour's Yang (时阳), Vital Energy (生气), Benefiting Descendants (益后), Azure Dragon (青龙), Barking Dog Opposite (鸣吠对)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Disaster Star (灾煞), Heaven's Fire (天火), Four Depletions (四耗)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Horse (Bing Wu day); traditionally best to avoid the South direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Ren (Yang Water) day: traditionally, water is not released, as it is said it will be hard to contain.
Zi (Rat) day: traditionally, diviners are not consulted, as it is said doing so brings calamity on oneself.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | South |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Southeast |
| God of Wealth (财神) | South |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | North |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | East |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Southeast |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-02-12 corresponds to Lunar month 1, day 15 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?
2025-02-12 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