Monday, September 2026
Suitable activities
Marriage Present betrothal gifts Formalize a betrothal Offerings & ancestor rites Pray for blessings Pray for children Consecration Rites to remove misfortune Welcome household members Move into a home Move residence Move a sacred flame Position a bed Open for business Trade Sign contracts Hang a signboard
Activities to avoid
Burial Acquire livestock Travel Funeral rites Cut timber Plant crops Build a temple Build a bridge
Pengzu taboos
On a Yi day, do not plant: a thousand plants will fail to grow.
On a Si day, do not travel far: wealth and belongings should remain safely stored.
Auspicious directions & deities
- Joy deity
- Northwest
- Wealth deity
- Northeast
- Fortune deity
- Southwest
- Yang noble deity
- Southwest
- Yin noble deity
- North
- Year Tai Sui
- South
- Month Tai Sui
- Southeast
- Day Tai Sui
- West
Festivals & seasons
- Solar-term period (by date)
- Autumn Equinox · 2026-09-23 08:05:14 UTC+8
- Next solar term
- Cold Dew · 2026-10-08 14:29:17 UTC+8
- Season
- Mid-autumn
- Traditional moon phase
- Seated-wait moon
- Five-day period
- Autumn Equinox: second five-day period
- Seasonal sign
- Hibernating insects seal their burrows
Daily influences
- Day cycle
- Yi-Si · Snake
- Clash
- Clashes with Pig (Ji-Hai)
- Sha direction
- East
- Twelve day officers
- Complete day
- Presiding deity
- Vermilion Bird
- Day path
- Black path · Inauspicious
- Auspicious spirits
- Yue De He · San He · Lin Ri · Tian Xi · Tian Yi · Pu Hu
- Inauspicious spirits
- Chong Ri · Vermilion Bird
- Daily fetal deity
- Mortar, mill and bed; inside the room, East
- Monthly fetal deity
- Latrine and household door
- Day prosperity
- Mutual prosperity: Mao; advancing prosperity: Bing / Wu
- Six-day cycle
- First Victory
Lunar date & cycles
- Lunar date
- 2026, Month 8, day 18
- Lunar month
- Month 8 · 29 days
- Lunar New Year cycle
- Bing-Wu · Horse
- Beginning of Spring day cycle
- Bing-Wu · Horse
- Month cycle
- Ding-You
- Day cycle
- Yi-Si
- Year Nayin
- Water of the celestial river
- Month Nayin
- Fire below the mountain
- Day Nayin
- Lamplight fire
- Year xun / void
- Jia-Chen / Yin / Mao
- Month xun / void
- Jia-Wu / Chen / Si
- Day xun / void
- Jia-Chen / Yin / Mao
- Western zodiac
- Libra
- Julian day number
- 2461311.5
Stars & lunar mansion
- Lunar mansion
- Rooftop · Moon · Swallow · Inauspicious
- Celestial palace / guardian
- North · Black Tortoise
- Mansion verse
- Do not build tall houses under Rooftop: punishment, hanging and bloodshed are foretold. Within three years children meet danger in water, and young people who leave home never return. Burial on this day is said to take an elder within a hundred days or a year. Grief returns within two or three years, and opening a door or releasing water leads to court.
- Year nine star
- 1 White Water · Kan (North) · Tianshu · Xuan Kong [Tanlang · Auspicious] · Qi Men [Tianpeng · Very inauspicious · Rest gate · Yang] · Tai Yi [Taiyi · Auspicious spirit]
- Month nine star
- 1 White Water · Kan (North) · Tianshu · Xuan Kong [Tanlang · Auspicious] · Qi Men [Tianpeng · Very inauspicious · Rest gate · Yang] · Tai Yi [Taiyi · Auspicious spirit]
- Day nine star
- 7 Red Metal · Dui (West) · Yaoguang · Xuan Kong [Pojun · Inauspicious] · Qi Men [Tianzhu · Mildly inauspicious · Fright gate · Yin] · Tai Yi [Xianchi · Inauspicious spirit]
Hourly almanac
| Hour | Suitable activities | Activities to avoid | Auspicious directions | Details | Nine star |
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| 00:00–00:59Bing-Zi · RatInauspicious | Seek wealth Meet a dignitary Engagement Marriage Move into a home Open for business Burial Pray for children | Take up a post Travel Offerings & ancestor rites Pray for blessings Fasting & Taoist rites Consecration |
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| 3 Blue-green Wood · Zhen (East) · Tianji · Xuan Kong [Lucun · Inauspicious] · Qi Men [Tianchong · Mildly auspicious · Injury gate · Yang] · Tai Yi [Xuanyuan · Peaceful spirit] |
| 01:00–02:59Ding-Chou · OxAuspicious | Pray for children Engagement Marriage Burial | Take up a post Travel Construction & repair Offerings & ancestor rites Pray for blessings Fasting & Taoist rites Consecration |
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| 2 Black Earth · Kun (Southwest) · Tianxuan · Xuan Kong [Jumen · Inauspicious] · Qi Men [Tianrui · Very inauspicious · Death gate · Yin] · Tai Yi [Sheti · Inauspicious spirit] |
| 03:00–04:59Wu-Yin · TigerInauspicious | Engagement Marriage Position a bed Move residence Move into a home Construction & repair Burial Take up a post Meet a dignitary Travel Seek wealth | Offerings & ancestor rites Pray for blessings Fasting & Taoist rites Give thanks to deities |
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| 1 White Water · Kan (North) · Tianshu · Xuan Kong [Tanlang · Auspicious] · Qi Men [Tianpeng · Very inauspicious · Rest gate · Yang] · Tai Yi [Taiyi · Auspicious spirit] |
| 05:00–06:59Ji-Mao · RabbitInauspicious | Pray for blessings Pray for children Travel Seek wealth Marriage Burial Construction & repair Build a house Move residence Build a stove Position a bed Move into a home Open for business | None listed |
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| 9 Purple Fire · Li (South) · Yinyuan · Xuan Kong [Youbi · Auspicious] · Qi Men [Tianying · Mildly inauspicious · Scenery gate · Yin] · Tai Yi [Tianyi · Auspicious spirit] |
| 07:00–08:59Geng-Chen · DragonAuspicious | Pray for blessings Pray for children Engagement Marriage Travel Seek wealth Open for business Trade Position a bed Offerings & ancestor rites | Raise a roof beam Build a house Place the deceased in a coffin Take up a post Litigation |
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| 8 White Earth · Gen (Northeast) · Dongming · Xuan Kong [Zuofu · Auspicious] · Qi Men [Tianren · Mildly auspicious · Life gate · Yang] · Tai Yi [Taiyin · Auspicious spirit] |
| 09:00–10:59Xin-Si · SnakeInauspicious | Offerings & ancestor rites Pray for blessings Give thanks to deities Travel Seek wealth Meet a dignitary Engagement Marriage Take up a post | Consecration Construction & repair Burial |
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| 7 Red Metal · Dui (West) · Yaoguang · Xuan Kong [Pojun · Inauspicious] · Qi Men [Tianzhu · Mildly inauspicious · Fright gate · Yin] · Tai Yi [Xianchi · Inauspicious spirit] |
| 11:00–12:59Ren-Wu · HorseAuspicious | Construction & repair Burial Engagement Marriage Open for business | Pray for blessings Pray for children Travel by boat |
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| 6 White Metal · Qian (Northwest) · Kaiyang · Xuan Kong [Wuqu · Auspicious] · Qi Men [Tianxin · Very auspicious · Open gate · Yin] · Tai Yi [Azure Dragon · Auspicious spirit] |
| 13:00–14:59Gui-Wei · GoatAuspicious | Pray for blessings Pray for children Engagement Marriage Seek wealth Open for business Trade Position a bed Offerings & ancestor rites | Take up a post Travel |
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| 5 Yellow Earth · Center (Center) · Yuheng · Xuan Kong [Lianzhen · Inauspicious] · Qi Men [Tianqin · Very auspicious · Yang] · Tai Yi [Tianfu · Inauspicious spirit] |
| 15:00–16:59Jia-Shen · MonkeyInauspicious | Take up a post Travel Seek wealth Meet a dignitary Marriage Welcome household members Move residence Burial | Construction & repair Break ground for construction |
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| 4 Green Wood · Xun (Southeast) · Tianquan · Xuan Kong [Wenqu · Auspicious] · Qi Men [Tianfu · Very auspicious · Obstruction gate · Yang] · Tai Yi [Zhaoyao · Peaceful spirit] |
| 17:00–18:59Yi-You · RoosterInauspicious | None listed | No activities recommended |
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| 3 Blue-green Wood · Zhen (East) · Tianji · Xuan Kong [Lucun · Inauspicious] · Qi Men [Tianchong · Mildly auspicious · Injury gate · Yang] · Tai Yi [Xuanyuan · Peaceful spirit] |
| 19:00–20:59Bing-Xu · DogAuspicious | Pray for children Engagement Marriage Seek wealth Open for business Trade Position a bed | Take up a post Construction & repair Move residence Travel Litigation Offerings & ancestor rites Pray for blessings Fasting & Taoist rites Consecration |
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| 2 Black Earth · Kun (Southwest) · Tianxuan · Xuan Kong [Jumen · Inauspicious] · Qi Men [Tianrui · Very inauspicious · Death gate · Yin] · Tai Yi [Sheti · Inauspicious spirit] |
| 21:00–22:59Ding-Hai · PigAuspicious | Pray for children Engagement Marriage Seek wealth Open for business Trade Position a bed Meet a dignitary | Offerings & ancestor rites Pray for blessings Fasting & Taoist rites Consecration Take up a post Travel |
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| 1 White Water · Kan (North) · Tianshu · Xuan Kong [Tanlang · Auspicious] · Qi Men [Tianpeng · Very inauspicious · Rest gate · Yang] · Tai Yi [Taiyi · Auspicious spirit] |
| 23:00–23:59Wu-Zi · RatAuspicious | Pray for blessings Pray for children Engagement Marriage Seek wealth Open for business Trade Position a bed | Take up a post Construction & repair Move residence Travel Litigation |
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| 3 Blue-green Wood · Zhen (East) · Tianji · Xuan Kong [Lucun · Inauspicious] · Qi Men [Tianchong · Mildly auspicious · Injury gate · Yang] · Tai Yi [Xuanyuan · Peaceful spirit] |