Chinese Almanac for 2025-08-07
2025-08-07 is Lunar month 6, day 14 (leap month) on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Wu Shen day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-08-07 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 6, day 14 (leap month) |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Jia (Yang Wood) Shen (Monkey) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Wu (Yang Earth) Shen (Monkey) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
| Solar term today | Start of Autumn |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Pray for blessings (祈福)
- Pray for offspring (求嗣)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Travel (出行)
- Perform a purification ritual (解除)
- Raise the roof beam (上梁)
- Build a roof (盖屋)
- Move house (移徙)
- Install a door (安门)
- Collect wealth (纳财)
- Raise livestock (牧养)
- Bring in livestock (纳畜)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Exhume for reburial (启钻)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Break ground for burial (破土)
- Acquire property (置产)
- Dig a well (掘井)
- Break ground (动土)
- Set up a bed (安床)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Heaven's Virtue Combination (天德合), Heaven's Pardon (天赦), King's Day (王日), Heaven's Granary (天仓), Not Leading — Favorable for Marriage (不将)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Month Establishment (月建), Minor Time (小时), Earth's Mansion (土府), Five Separations (五离), Heaven's Prison (天牢)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Tiger (Ren Yin day); traditionally best to avoid the South direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Wu (Yang Earth) day: traditionally, land is not accepted, as it is said to be inauspicious for the landowner.
Shen (Monkey) day: traditionally, beds are not set up, as it is said spirits will enter the room.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Southeast |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Northeast |
| God of Wealth (财神) | North |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | Southeast |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | Northeast |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Southwest |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-08-07 corresponds to Lunar month 6, day 14 (leap month) 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?
2025-08-07 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