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Daily Insight

A living Chinese almanac for the day, paired with a quieter prompt for how you might move through it.

October 1917

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Lunar month 830Day 15NorthwestFavourablePlantingAvoidLendingLunar month 81Day 16SouthwestFavourableBlessingsAvoidQuarrelsLunar month 82Day 17Due SouthFavourableTravelAvoidMoving houseLunar month 83Day 18SoutheastFavourableGatheringsAvoidHasteLunar month 84Day 19NortheastFavourableAgreementsAvoidLitigationLunar month 85Day 20NorthwestFavourableStudyAvoidGroundbreakingLunar month 86Day 21SouthwestFavourablePlantingAvoidLendingLunar month 87Day 22Due SouthFavourableBlessingsAvoidQuarrelsLunar month 88Day 23SoutheastFavourableTravelAvoidMoving houseCold Dew9Day 24NortheastFavourableGatheringsAvoidHasteLunar month 810Day 25NorthwestFavourableAgreementsAvoidLitigationLunar month 811Day 26SouthwestFavourableStudyAvoidGroundbreakingLunar month 812Day 27Due SouthFavourablePlantingAvoidLendingLunar month 813Day 28SoutheastFavourableBlessingsAvoidQuarrelsLunar month 814Day 29NortheastFavourableTravelAvoidMoving houseLunar month 815Day 30NorthwestFavourableGatheringsAvoidHasteLunar month 916Day 1SouthwestFavourableAgreementsAvoidLitigationLunar month 917Day 2Due SouthFavourableStudyAvoidGroundbreakingLunar month 918Day 3SoutheastFavourablePlantingAvoidLendingLunar month 919Day 4NortheastFavourableBlessingsAvoidQuarrelsLunar month 920Day 5NorthwestFavourableTravelAvoidMoving houseLunar month 921Day 6SouthwestFavourableGatheringsAvoidHasteLunar month 922Day 7Due SouthFavourableAgreementsAvoidLitigationLunar month 923Day 8SoutheastFavourableStudyAvoidGroundbreakingFrost Descent24Day 9NortheastFavourablePlantingAvoidLendingLunar month 925Day 10NorthwestFavourableBlessingsAvoidQuarrelsLunar month 926Day 11SouthwestFavourableTravelAvoidMoving houseLunar month 927Day 12Due SouthFavourableGatheringsAvoidHasteLunar month 928Day 13SoutheastFavourableAgreementsAvoidLitigationLunar month 929Day 14NortheastFavourableStudyAvoidGroundbreakingLunar month 930Day 15NorthwestFavourablePlantingAvoidLendingLunar month 931Day 16SouthwestFavourableBlessingsAvoidQuarrelsLunar month 91Day 17Due SouthFavourableTravelAvoidMoving houseLunar month 92Day 18SoutheastFavourableGatheringsAvoidHasteLunar month 93Day 19NortheastFavourableAgreementsAvoidLitigationLunar month 94Day 20NorthwestFavourableStudyAvoidGroundbreakingLunar month 95Day 21SouthwestFavourablePlantingAvoidLendingLunar month 96Day 22Due SouthFavourableBlessingsAvoidQuarrelsLunar month 97Day 23SoutheastFavourableTravelAvoidMoving houseStart of Winter8Day 24NortheastFavourableGatheringsAvoidHasteLunar month 99Day 25NorthwestFavourableAgreementsAvoidLitigationLunar month 910Day 26SouthwestFavourableStudyAvoidGroundbreaking
Today Selected Solar term

Sunday, October 21, 1917

Lunar 一九一七年 · 九月初六

Daily direction

Southwest

Make room for warm gatherings and patient beginnings. If rushed decisions asks for your attention, let patience set the pace.

Lean into
warm gatherings
Give space to
rushed decisions

A daily reflection is not a prediction. Use it as a prompt for attentive, self-directed choices.

24 Solar Terms

Follow the seasonal rhythm, from today into the next turn.

  1. Cold Dew

    Tue

    1917-10-09

    Passed 12 days

  2. Selected date

    Sun

    1917-10-21

    Since the previous term: 12 days

  3. Frost Descent

    Wed

    1917-10-24

    In 3 days

  4. Start of Winter

    Thu

    1917-11-08

    In 18 days

Traditional almanac

The day at a glance

Lunar date, gan-zhi cycles, solar terms, auspicious activities and timing.

寒露 → 霜降

Year cycle

丁巳

Zodiac · 蛇

Month cycle

庚戌

九月初六

Day cycle

丙申

山下火

Day guardian

金匮

吉 · 开

Favourable

Traditional activities commonly associated with a smoother rhythm today.

Make an offeringOffer prayersPurification riteBathingRaise pillarsMake a pactFormal betrothalMarriageDismantleMove into a home

Avoid

Traditional cautions for the day; treat them as a pause for discernment.

Build a stoveFuneral preparationBurialSet a bed

Orientation

Auspicious directions

Traditional directional correspondences for the day.

Joy

Southwest

坤

Fortune

Northwest

乾

Wealth

Southwest

坤

Day notes

Clash (庚寅)虎 · Sha 南

丙不修灶必见灾殃 · 申不安床鬼祟入房

Timing

Twelve double-hours

A traditional indication of the day’s changing rhythm.

23:00–00:59

戊子

Favourable

01:00–02:59

己丑

Favourable

03:00–04:59

庚寅

Avoid

05:00–06:59

辛卯

Avoid

07:00–08:59

壬辰

Favourable

09:00–10:59

癸巳

Favourable

11:00–12:59

甲午

Avoid

13:00–14:59

乙未

Favourable

15:00–16:59

丙申

Avoid

17:00–18:59

丁酉

Avoid

19:00–20:59

戊戌

Favourable

21:00–22:59

己亥

Avoid

Almanac information and Daily Insight are offered for traditional-culture reference and personal reflection only. They are not professional, medical, legal, or financial advice.

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