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Traditional calendar · personal reflection

Daily Insight

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

October 1976

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TODAY
Sun
Mon
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Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Leap lunar month 826Day 3SouthwestFavourablePlantingAvoidLendingLeap lunar month 827Day 4Due SouthFavourableBlessingsAvoidQuarrelsLeap lunar month 828Day 5SoutheastFavourableTravelAvoidMoving houseLeap lunar month 829Day 6NortheastFavourableGatheringsAvoidHasteLeap lunar month 830Day 7NorthwestFavourableAgreementsAvoidLitigationLeap lunar month 81Day 8SouthwestFavourableStudyAvoidGroundbreakingLeap lunar month 82Day 9Due SouthFavourablePlantingAvoidLendingLeap lunar month 83Day 10SoutheastFavourableBlessingsAvoidQuarrelsLeap lunar month 84Day 11NortheastFavourableTravelAvoidMoving houseLeap lunar month 85Day 12NorthwestFavourableGatheringsAvoidHasteLeap lunar month 86Day 13SouthwestFavourableAgreementsAvoidLitigationLeap lunar month 87Day 14Due SouthFavourableStudyAvoidGroundbreakingCold Dew8Day 15SoutheastFavourablePlantingAvoidLendingLeap lunar month 89Day 16NortheastFavourableBlessingsAvoidQuarrelsLeap lunar month 810Day 17NorthwestFavourableTravelAvoidMoving houseLeap lunar month 811Day 18SouthwestFavourableGatheringsAvoidHasteLeap lunar month 812Day 19Due SouthFavourableAgreementsAvoidLitigationLeap lunar month 813Day 20SoutheastFavourableStudyAvoidGroundbreakingLeap lunar month 814Day 21NortheastFavourablePlantingAvoidLendingLeap lunar month 815Day 22NorthwestFavourableBlessingsAvoidQuarrelsLeap lunar month 816Day 23SouthwestFavourableTravelAvoidMoving houseLeap lunar month 817Day 24Due SouthFavourableGatheringsAvoidHasteLeap lunar month 818Day 25SoutheastFavourableAgreementsAvoidLitigationLeap lunar month 819Day 26NortheastFavourableStudyAvoidGroundbreakingLeap lunar month 820Day 27NorthwestFavourablePlantingAvoidLendingLeap lunar month 821Day 28SouthwestFavourableBlessingsAvoidQuarrelsLeap lunar month 822Day 29Due SouthFavourableTravelAvoidMoving houseFrost Descent23Day 1SoutheastFavourableGatheringsAvoidHasteLunar month 924Day 2NortheastFavourableAgreementsAvoidLitigationLunar month 925Day 3NorthwestFavourableStudyAvoidGroundbreakingLunar month 926Day 4SouthwestFavourablePlantingAvoidLendingLunar month 927Day 5Due SouthFavourableBlessingsAvoidQuarrelsLunar month 928Day 6SoutheastFavourableTravelAvoidMoving houseLunar month 929Day 7NortheastFavourableGatheringsAvoidHasteLunar month 930Day 8NorthwestFavourableAgreementsAvoidLitigationLunar month 931Day 9SouthwestFavourableStudyAvoidGroundbreakingLunar month 91Day 10Due SouthFavourablePlantingAvoidLendingLunar month 92Day 11SoutheastFavourableBlessingsAvoidQuarrelsLunar month 93Day 12NortheastFavourableTravelAvoidMoving houseLunar month 94Day 13NorthwestFavourableGatheringsAvoidHasteLunar month 95Day 14SouthwestFavourableAgreementsAvoidLitigationLunar month 96Day 15Due SouthFavourableStudyAvoidGroundbreaking
Today Selected Solar term

Monday, October 11, 1976

Lunar 一九七六年 · 闰八月十八

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

    Fri

    1976-10-08

    Passed 3 days

  2. Selected date

    Mon

    1976-10-11

    Since the previous term: 3 days

  3. Frost Descent

    Sat

    1976-10-23

    In 12 days

  4. Start of Winter

    Sun

    1976-11-07

    In 27 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

丙辰

Zodiac · 龙

Month cycle

戊戌

闰八月十八

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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