Chinese Almanac for 2029-09-26

2029-09-26 is Lunar month 8, day 19 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Ji Wei day in the Ji You (Rooster) year.

Key facts

Gregorian date 2029-09-26
Lunar date Lunar month 8, day 19
Year (Ganzhi) Ji (Yin Earth) You (Rooster)
Month (Ganzhi) Gui (Yin Water) You (Rooster)
Day (Ganzhi) Ji (Yin Earth) Wei (Goat)
Year zodiac Rooster

Auspicious for (宜)

  • Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
  • Hold Ghost Festival rites (普渡)
  • Perform a purification ritual (解除)
  • Visit friends and family (会亲友)
  • Hunt or trap (捕捉)
  • Hunt (畋猎)
  • Exhume for reburial (启钻)
  • End mourning (除服)
  • Put on mourning clothes (成服)
  • Move the coffin (移柩)

Inauspicious for (忌)

  • Marry (嫁娶)
  • Open for business (开市)
  • Break ground (动土)
  • Dig a well (掘井)
  • Dig a pond (开池)
  • Bury the deceased (安葬)

Auspicious spirits (吉神)

Mother's Granary (母仓), Yin Virtue (阴德), Hour's Yang (时阳), Vital Energy (生气), Heaven's Granary (天仓), Precious Light (宝光)

Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)

Five Voids (五虚), Nine Voids (九空), Earth Talisman (土符), Eight Specialization (八专)

Clash & direction to avoid

Clashes with Ox (Gui Chou day); traditionally best to avoid the West direction.

Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos

Ji (Yin Earth) day: traditionally, contracts are not torn up, as it is said both parties will suffer loss.

Wei (Goat) day: traditionally, medicine is not taken, as it is said poison will enter the intestines.

Auspicious directions

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

What is today's lunar date?

2029-09-26 corresponds to Lunar month 8, day 19 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?

2029-09-26 falls in the Ji You year, the year of the Rooster.

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