Chinese Almanac for 2025-04-06
2025-04-06 is Lunar month 3, day 9 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Yi Si day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-04-06 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 3, day 9 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Geng (Yang Metal) Chen (Dragon) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Pray for blessings (祈福)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Pray for offspring (求嗣)
- Perform a purification ritual (解除)
- Fell trees (伐木)
- Relocate the household fire (出火)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Move house (移徙)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- Dismantle (拆卸)
- Renovate and build (修造)
- Break ground (动土)
- Build a livestock pen (造畜稠)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Collect wealth (纳财)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Travel (出行)
- Open for business (开市)
- Sign a contract (立券)
- Build the stove (作灶)
- Plant (栽种)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Yin Virtue (阴德), Minister's Day (相日), Auspicious Period (吉期), Five Riches (五富), Golden Hall (金堂), Bright Hall (明堂)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Robbery Star (劫煞), 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?
2025-04-06 corresponds to Lunar month 3, day 9 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?
2025-04-06 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