Chinese Almanac for 2025-10-08
2025-10-08 is Lunar month 8, day 17 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Geng Xu day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-10-08 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 8, day 17 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Bing (Yang Fire) Xu (Dog) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Geng (Yang Metal) Xu (Dog) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
| Solar term today | Cold Dew |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Travel (出行)
- Cut cloth for tailoring (裁衣)
- Hold a coming-of-age ceremony (冠笄)
- Visit friends and family (会亲友)
- Build a livestock pen (造畜稠)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Erect pillars (竖柱)
- Raise the roof beam (上梁)
- Move house (移徙)
- Collect wealth (纳财)
- Bring in livestock (纳畜)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Break ground (动土)
- Fell trees (伐木)
- Make roof beams (作梁)
- Hold a funeral procession (行丧)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Build a grave in advance while living (开生坟)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Heaven's Grace (天恩), Mother's Granary (母仓), Month's Virtue (月德), Guarding Day (守日), Heavenly Horse (天马)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Month Establishment (月建), Minor Time (小时), Earth's Mansion (土府), White Tiger (白虎), Yang Error (阳错)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Dragon (Jia Chen day); traditionally best to avoid the North 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.
Xu (Dog) day: traditionally, dog meat is not eaten, as it is said strange things will happen.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Northwest |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Southwest |
| God of Wealth (财神) | East |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | Southeast |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | South |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Northeast |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-10-08 corresponds to Lunar month 8, 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?
2025-10-08 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