Chinese Almanac for 2025-11-07
2025-11-07 is Lunar month 9, day 18 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Geng Chen day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-11-07 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 9, day 18 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Ding (Yin Fire) Hai (Pig) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Geng (Yang Metal) Chen (Dragon) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
| Solar term today | Start of Winter |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Perform a purification ritual (解除)
- Dismantle (拆卸)
- Renovate and build (修造)
- Break ground (动土)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- Bring in livestock (纳畜)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Exhume for reburial (启钻)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Open for business (开市)
- Relocate the household fire (出火)
- Plant (栽种)
- Break ground for burial (破土)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Move house (移徙)
- Install an altar (安香)
- Separate households (分居)
- Dig a well (掘井)
- Build the stove (作灶)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Heaven's Virtue Combination (天德合), Month Void (月空), Heaven's Grace (天恩), Yang Virtue (阳德), Not Leading — Favorable for Marriage (不将), Untying Spirit (解神), Kitchen God (司命)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Minor Depletion (小耗), Heaven's Thief (天贼), Earth Talisman (土符)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Dog (Jia Xu day); traditionally best to avoid the South 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.
Chen (Dragon) day: traditionally, weeping is avoided, as it is said to foretell a second death in the family.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Northwest |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Southwest |
| God of Wealth (财神) | East |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | South |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | South |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Northeast |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-11-07 corresponds to Lunar month 9, 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?
2025-11-07 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