Chinese Almanac for 2025-10-13

2025-10-13 is Lunar month 8, day 22 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Yi Mao day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.

Key facts

Gregorian date 2025-10-13
Lunar date Lunar month 8, day 22
Year (Ganzhi) Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake)
Month (Ganzhi) Bing (Yang Fire) Xu (Dog)
Day (Ganzhi) Yi (Yin Wood) Mao (Rabbit)
Year zodiac Snake

Auspicious for (宜)

  • Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
  • Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
  • Move the coffin (移柩)
  • Build a grave in advance while living (开生坟)
  • Break ground for burial (破土)
  • Exhume for reburial (启钻)
  • Bury the deceased (安葬)
  • End mourning (除服)
  • Put on mourning clothes (成服)
  • Avoid all other matters (馀事勿取)

Inauspicious for (忌)

  • None (无)

Auspicious spirits (吉神)

Six Harmony (六合), Sacred Heart (圣心), Five Harmony (五合), Barking Dog Opposite (鸣吠对)

Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)

Great Time (大时), Great Defeat (大败), Peach Blossom Pond (咸池), Minor Depletion (小耗), Four Wastes (四废), Five Voids (五虚), Gouchen — Yellow Dragon (勾陈)

Clash & direction to avoid

Clashes with Rooster (Ji You 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.

Mao (Rabbit) day: traditionally, wells are not dug, as it is said the spring water will turn foul.

Auspicious directions

God of Joy (喜神) Northwest
God of Fortune (福神) Southwest
God of Wealth (财神) Northeast
Tai Sui (太岁) North
Yang Noble God (阳贵神) Southwest
Yin Noble God (阴贵神) North

What is today's lunar date?

2025-10-13 corresponds to Lunar month 8, day 22 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?

2025-10-13 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