Chinese Almanac for 2025-09-17
2025-09-17 is Lunar month 7, day 26 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Ji Chou day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-09-17 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 7, day 26 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) You (Rooster) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Ji (Yin Earth) Chou (Ox) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Pray for blessings (祈福)
- Pray for offspring (求嗣)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Travel (出行)
- Relocate the household fire (出火)
- Dismantle (拆卸)
- Renovate and build (修造)
- Break ground (动土)
- Welcome new household members (进人口)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Move house (移徙)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- Open for business (开市)
- Trade (交易)
- Sign a contract (立券)
- Hang a plaque (挂匾)
- Plant (栽种)
- Bring in livestock (纳畜)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- End mourning (除服)
- Put on mourning clothes (成服)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- None (无)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Mother's Granary (母仓), Triple Harmony (三合), Hour's Yin (时阴), Golden Hall (金堂)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Dead Energy (死气), Gouchen — Yellow Dragon (勾陈)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Goat (Gui Wei day); traditionally best to avoid the East direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Ji (Yin Earth) day: traditionally, contracts are not torn up, as it is said both parties will suffer loss.
Chou (Ox) day: traditionally, a capping ceremony is not held, as it is said the honoree will not return home.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Northeast |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | North |
| God of Wealth (财神) | North |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | Center |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | North |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Southwest |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-09-17 corresponds to Lunar month 7, day 26 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?
2025-09-17 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