Chinese Almanac for 2025-03-17
2025-03-17 is Lunar month 2, day 18 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Yi You day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-03-17 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 2, day 18 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Ji (Yin Earth) Mao (Rabbit) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) You (Rooster) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Treat illness (治病)
- Demolish a house (破屋)
- Demolish a wall (坏垣)
- Avoid all other matters (馀事勿取)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Nothing advised today (诸事不宜)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Jade Palace (玉宇), Removing Spirit (除神), Jade Hall (玉堂), Barking Dog (鸣吠)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Month Breaker (月破), Great Depletion (大耗), Disaster Star (灾煞), Heaven's Fire (天火), Month Aversion (月厌), Earth Fire (地火), Five Voids (五虚), Repeat Day (复日), Five Separations (五离), White Tiger (白虎)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Rabbit (Ji Mao 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.
You (Rooster) day: traditionally, guests are not entertained, as it is said drunkenness will lead to madness.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Northwest |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Southwest |
| God of Wealth (财神) | Northeast |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | Southeast |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | Southwest |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | North |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-03-17 corresponds to Lunar month 2, 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?
2025-03-17 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