Chinese Almanac for 2025-10-03
2025-10-03 is Lunar month 8, day 12 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Yi Si day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-10-03 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 8, day 12 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) You (Rooster) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Present betrothal gifts (纳采)
- Hold an engagement ceremony (订盟)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Pray for blessings (祈福)
- Pray for offspring (求嗣)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Perform a purification ritual (解除)
- Welcome new household members (进人口)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Move house (移徙)
- Relocate the household fire (出火)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- Open for business (开市)
- Trade (交易)
- Sign a contract (立券)
- Hang a plaque (挂匾)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Bring in livestock (纳畜)
- Travel (出行)
- Hold a funeral procession (行丧)
- Fell trees (伐木)
- Plant (栽种)
- Build a temple (造庙)
- Build a bridge (造桥)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Month's Virtue Combination (月德合), Triple Harmony (三合), Day of Attendance (临日), Heaven's Joy (天喜), Heaven's Physician (天医), Universal Protection (普护)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Double Day (重日), Vermilion Bird (朱雀)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Pig (Ji Hai day); traditionally best to avoid the East direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Yi (Yin Wood) day: traditionally, planting is avoided, as it is said a thousand saplings will not grow.
Si (Snake) day: traditionally, long journeys are avoided, as it is said belongings will be lost or hidden.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Northwest |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Southwest |
| God of Wealth (财神) | Northeast |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | West |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | Southwest |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | North |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-10-03 corresponds to Lunar month 8, 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?
2025-10-03 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