Chinese Almanac for 2025-10-09
2025-10-09 is Lunar month 8, day 18 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Xin Hai day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-10-09 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 8, day 18 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Bing (Yang Fire) Xu (Dog) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Xin (Yin Metal) Hai (Pig) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Pray for blessings (祈福)
- Pray for offspring (求嗣)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Travel (出行)
- Perform a purification ritual (解除)
- Move house (移徙)
- Fell trees (伐木)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- Bring in livestock (纳畜)
- Relocate the household fire (出火)
- Dismantle (拆卸)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Renovate a grave (修坟)
- Build the stove (作灶)
- Break ground for burial (破土)
- Build a temple (造庙)
- Break ground (动土)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Present betrothal gifts (纳采)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Heaven's Virtue Combination (天德合), Month's Virtue Combination (月德合), Heaven's Grace (天恩), Minister's Day (相日), Auspicious Period (吉期), Five Riches (五富), Reverent Peace (敬安), Jade Hall (玉堂)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Robbery Star (劫煞), Four Exhaustions (四穷), Nine Tigers (九虎), Five Voids (五虚), Earth Talisman (土符), Double Day (重日)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Snake (Yi Si day); traditionally best to avoid the West direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Xin (Yin Metal) day: traditionally, sauce is not made, as it is said the owner will never taste it.
Hai (Pig) day: traditionally, marriages are not held, as it is said it will be unlucky for the groom.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Southwest |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Northwest |
| God of Wealth (财神) | East |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | Southeast |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | Northeast |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | South |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-10-09 corresponds to Lunar month 8, day 18 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?
2025-10-09 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