Chinese Almanac for 2025-09-03
2025-09-03 is Lunar month 7, day 12 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Yi Hai day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-09-03 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 7, day 12 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Jia (Yang Wood) Shen (Monkey) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Hai (Pig) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Get a haircut (理发)
- Build the stove (作灶)
- Take a ritual bath (沐浴)
- Repair the wall (修饰垣墙)
- Level roads (平治道涂)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Plant (栽种)
- Pray for blessings (祈福)
- Build a bridge (造桥)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Install a door (安门)
- Fell trees (伐木)
- Make roof beams (作梁)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Minister's Day (相日), Universal Protection (普护)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Heaven's Net (天罡), Death God (死神), Month Harm (月害), Wandering Calamity (游祸), Double Day (重日), Gouchen — Yellow Dragon (勾陈)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Snake (Ji Si day); traditionally best to avoid the West direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Yi (Yin Wood) day: traditionally, planting is avoided, as it is said a thousand saplings will not grow.
Hai (Pig) day: traditionally, marriages are not held, as it is said it will be unlucky for the groom.
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?
2025-09-03 corresponds to Lunar month 7, day 12 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?
2025-09-03 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