Chinese Almanac for 2025-10-23
2025-10-23 is Lunar month 9, day 3 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Yi Chou day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-10-23 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 9, day 3 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Bing (Yang Fire) Xu (Dog) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Chou (Ox) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
| Solar term today | Frost's Descent |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Perform a purification ritual (解除)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Repair the wall (修饰垣墙)
- Level roads (平治道涂)
- Build a livestock pen (造畜稠)
- Avoid all other matters (馀事勿取)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Open for business (开市)
- Trade (交易)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Start school (入学)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Heaven's Grace (天恩), Mother's Granary (母仓), Blessing Birth (福生)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Heaven's Net (天罡), Death God (死神), Month Havoc (月煞), Month Emptiness (月虚), Black Tortoise (元武)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Goat (Ji Wei 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.
Chou (Ox) day: traditionally, a capping ceremony is not held, as it is said the honoree will not return home.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Northwest |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Southwest |
| God of Wealth (财神) | Northeast |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | East |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | Southwest |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | North |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-10-23 corresponds to Lunar month 9, day 3 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?
2025-10-23 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