Chinese Almanac for 2025-03-09
2025-03-09 is Lunar month 2, day 10 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Ding Chou day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-03-09 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 2, day 10 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Ji (Yin Earth) Mao (Rabbit) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Ding (Yin Fire) Chou (Ox) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Hold an engagement ceremony (订盟)
- Present betrothal gifts (纳采)
- Renovate and build (修造)
- Break ground (动土)
- Pray for blessings (祈福)
- Sculpt or paint deity images (塑绘)
- Hold a Taoist purification rite (斋醮)
- Take a ritual bath (沐浴)
- Dismantle (拆卸)
- Lay the foundation (起基)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Install an altar (安香)
- Build a temple (造庙)
- Move the coffin (移柩)
- Thank the earth god (谢土)
- End mourning (除服)
- Put on mourning clothes (成服)
- Start school (入学)
- Learn a craft (习艺)
- Travel (出行)
- Erect pillars (竖柱)
- Raise the roof beam (上梁)
- Dig a well (掘井)
- Pray for offspring (求嗣)
- Perform a purification ritual (解除)
- Fell trees (伐木)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Build the stove (作灶)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Open for business (开市)
- Build a roof (盖屋)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Month's Grace (月恩), Four Images (四相), Hour's Yang (时阳), Vital Energy (生气), Not Leading — Favorable for Marriage (不将), Reverent Peace (敬安)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Five Voids (五虚), Eight Winds (八风), Nine Voids (九空), Nine Pits (九坎), Nine Scorches (九焦), Gouchen — Yellow Dragon (勾陈)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Goat (Xin Wei day); traditionally best to avoid the East direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Ding (Yin Fire) day: traditionally, hair is not cut, as it is said sores will form on the head.
Chou (Ox) day: traditionally, a capping ceremony is not held, as it is said the honoree will not return home.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | South |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Southeast |
| God of Wealth (财神) | Southwest |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | South |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | Northwest |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | West |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-03-09 corresponds to Lunar month 2, 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?
2025-03-09 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