1987/3/17 (Gregorian) Tue

Lunar Ding-Mao year, 2nd month, day 18

Ding-Mao yearGui-Mao monthYi-Chou dayZodiac: Rabbit

Day 11 after Awakening of Insects

Next solar term: Spring Equinox, 3月21日 11:52 (in 4 days)

Dos, don'ts and spirits

Good for

  • Worship
  • Consecrating a Religious Statue
  • Sculpting or Painting Religious Images
  • Thanking the Gods
  • Performing a Taoist Ritual
  • Engagement
  • Betrothal Gift-Giving
  • Marriage
  • Cutting Cloth for Clothes
  • Breaking Ground
  • Starting Foundation Work
  • Moving a Household Shrine or Stove
  • Demolition
  • Moving House
  • Moving into a New Home
  • Setting Up an Incense Altar
  • Renovation
  • Erecting a Pillar
  • Raising the Ridge Beam
  • Acquiring Livestock
  • Raising Livestock
  • Praying for Blessings
  • Praying for Offspring
  • Exorcism or Purification Rites
  • Felling Trees
  • Laying a Foundation Stone
  • Roofing a House
  • Installing a Door

Avoid

  • Planting
  • Burial
Clash
Clashes with Goat · Sha in the East
12 Day Officers
Open
28 Lunar Mansions
Turtle Beak mansion
Nayin element
Gold in the Sea
Joy deity direction
Northwest
Wealth deity direction
Northeast
Fetal deity location
Millstone & Toilet · outside, southeast
Peng Zu's taboos
Yi day: don't plant — a thousand saplings wouldn't grow. / Chou (Ox) day: don't hold a coming-of-age ceremony — the person wouldn't return home.

Favorable and unfavorable activities, clashes and similar entries follow the method common to traditional almanacs. Almanacs differ slightly, so use this as a reference only. It doesn't replace professional date selection or any medical, legal or financial judgment.

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