Chinese Almanac for 2025-09-23
2025-09-23 is Lunar month 8, day 2 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Yi Wei day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-09-23 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 8, day 2 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) You (Rooster) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Wei (Goat) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
| Solar term today | Autumn Equinox |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Renovate a grave (修坟)
- End mourning (除服)
- Put on mourning clothes (成服)
- Exhume for reburial (启钻)
- Move the coffin (移柩)
- Avoid all other matters (馀事勿取)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Open for business (开市)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Break ground (动土)
- Break ground for burial (破土)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Month's Virtue Combination (月德合), Mother's Granary (母仓), Yang Virtue (阳德), Hour's Yang (时阳), Vital Energy (生气), Heaven's Granary (天仓), Precious Light (宝光)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Five Voids (五虚), Nine Voids (九空), Earth Talisman (土符)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Ox (Ji Chou 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.
Wei (Goat) day: traditionally, medicine is not taken, as it is said poison will enter the intestines.
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?
2025-09-23 corresponds to Lunar month 8, day 2 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?
2025-09-23 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