Chinese Almanac for 2025-09-08
2025-09-08 is Lunar month 7, day 17 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Geng Chen day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-09-08 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 7, day 17 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) You (Rooster) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Geng (Yang Metal) Chen (Dragon) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Pray for blessings (祈福)
- Pray for offspring (求嗣)
- Travel (出行)
- Relocate the household fire (出火)
- Dismantle (拆卸)
- Renovate and build (修造)
- Break ground (动土)
- Raise the roof beam (上梁)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Welcome new household members (进人口)
- Open for business (开市)
- Trade (交易)
- Sign a contract (立券)
- Hang a plaque (挂匾)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Move house (移徙)
- Plant (栽种)
- Fell trees (伐木)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
- Break ground for burial (破土)
- End mourning (除服)
- Put on mourning clothes (成服)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- None (无)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Month's Virtue (月德), Heaven's Grace (天恩), Mother's Granary (母仓), Heaven's Wish (天愿), Six Harmony (六合), Reverent Peace (敬安)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Month Havoc (月煞), Month Emptiness (月虚), Four Strikes (四击), Heaven's Punishment (天刑)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Dog (Jia Xu day); traditionally best to avoid the South direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Geng (Yang Metal) day: traditionally, looms are not set up, as it is said the work will come to nothing.
Chen (Dragon) day: traditionally, weeping is avoided, as it is said to foretell a second death in the family.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Northwest |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Southwest |
| God of Wealth (财神) | East |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | South |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | South |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Northeast |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-09-08 corresponds to Lunar month 7, day 17 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?
2025-09-08 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