Chinese Almanac for 2025-09-14

2025-09-14 is Lunar month 7, day 23 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Bing Xu day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.

Key facts

Gregorian date 2025-09-14
Lunar date Lunar month 7, day 23
Year (Ganzhi) Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake)
Month (Ganzhi) Yi (Yin Wood) You (Rooster)
Day (Ganzhi) Bing (Yang Fire) Xu (Dog)
Year zodiac Snake

Auspicious for (宜)

  • Marry (嫁娶)
  • Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
  • Sculpt or paint deity images (塑绘)
  • Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
  • Travel (出行)
  • Perform a purification ritual (解除)
  • Get a haircut (理发)
  • Trim nails (整手足甲)
  • Break ground (动土)
  • Set up a bed (安床)
  • Dig a pond (开池)
  • Release water (放水)
  • Sweep the house (扫舍)

Inauspicious for (忌)

  • Fell trees (伐木)
  • Hold a funeral procession (行丧)
  • Build the stove (作灶)
  • Make roof beams (作梁)
  • Bury the deceased (安葬)

Auspicious spirits (吉神)

Mother's Granary (母仓), Guarding Day (守日), Auspicious Period (吉期), Continuing Generations (续世)

Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)

Month Harm (月害), Blood Taboo (血忌), Heaven's Prison (天牢)

Clash & direction to avoid

Clashes with Dragon (Geng Chen day); traditionally best to avoid the North direction.

Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos

Bing (Yang Fire) day: traditionally, the stove is not repaired, as it is said disaster will follow.

Xu (Dog) day: traditionally, dog meat is not eaten, as it is said strange things will happen.

Auspicious directions

God of Joy (喜神) Southwest
God of Fortune (福神) Northwest
God of Wealth (财神) Southwest
Tai Sui (太岁) Southeast
Yang Noble God (阳贵神) West
Yin Noble God (阴贵神) Northwest

What is today's lunar date?

2025-09-14 corresponds to Lunar month 7, day 23 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?

2025-09-14 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