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2026-01-22 · Thu
Lunar year 2025, month 12, day 4 · Bing Shen Monkey day
Month 12, day 4
Bing Shen Monkey
Snake
Yi Si Snake
Tiger
South
2026-01-22 is Lunar year 2025, month 12, day 4, carried by a Bing Shen Monkey day pillar and a Fire day element. Read the favorable list as the day's supported activity lane, especially around relationships, family plans, or formal agreements. Read the caution list as a slower lane around quiet reflection, restraint, or symbolic reset and repairs, renovation, or structural decisions. The Tiger clash and South Sha direction add traditional context for who or what may need a more deliberate approach.
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These are plain-English scans of the selected day's Favorable actions, Caution actions, Clash animal, and Caution direction.
Moving
Home setup, cleaning, or living-space routines appear in Caution actions. For moving home, rearranging space, or setting up a living routine, keep plans reversible and check the clash animal and caution direction.
Wedding
SupportedRelationships, family plans, or formal agreements appear in Favorable actions. This supports marriage plans, formal relationship steps, or family-facing commitments, while the Tiger clash and South caution direction still deserve a quick check.
Business
SupportedBusiness, contracts, money movement, or commitments appear in Favorable actions. This supports business openings, hiring, cash movement, property, or commercial decisions, while the Tiger clash and South caution direction still deserve a quick check.
Renovation
SupportedRepairs, renovation, or structural decisions, home setup, cleaning, or living-space routines appear in Favorable actions. This supports repair, construction, ground work, demolition, or structural home changes, while the Tiger clash and South caution direction still deserve a quick check.
Signing
SupportedBusiness, contracts, money movement, or commitments, relationships, family plans, or formal agreements appear in Favorable actions. This supports contracts, agreements, negotiation, or formal promises, while the Tiger clash and South caution direction still deserve a quick check.
This scan summarizes common planning categories for the selected date. Always read it together with the detailed Favorable and Caution lists.
Favorable actions
The selected almanac source marks these activities as better supported for this date.
- Marriage
- Betrothal gifts
- Make an agreement
- Consecrate or open light
- Place incense
- Move household fire
- Receive wealth or payment
- Open business
- Trade or exchange
- Sign contracts
- Cut or tailor clothing
- Home structure work
- Lay foundations
- Renovate or build
- Break ground
- Install doors
- Relocation
- Move into a home
- Planting
- Livestock care
- Hunting
- Dig a well
- Open a pond
- Burial
- Burial ground work
- Encoffining rites
- End mourning garments
- Begin mourning garments
- Set a monument
Source terms and meanings
- Marriage · 嫁娶Relationship or social rite: traditionally connected with agreements, family meetings, marriage customs, or formal bonds.
- Betrothal gifts · 纳采Relationship or social rite: traditionally connected with agreements, family meetings, marriage customs, or formal bonds.
- Make an agreement · 订盟Relationship or social rite: traditionally connected with agreements, family meetings, marriage customs, or formal bonds.
- Consecrate or open light · 开光Ritual or devotional activity: traditionally read as better aligned with honoring, prayer, or ceremonial attention.
- Place incense · 安香Ritual or devotional activity: traditionally read as better aligned with honoring, prayer, or ceremonial attention.
- Move household fire · 出火A traditional Huang Li item preserved from the selected record; MingSez keeps the source term visible when a narrower meaning is not yet validated.
- Receive wealth or payment · 纳财Exchange and commitment: traditionally related to business opening, contracts, hiring, property, or money movement.
- Open business · 开市Exchange and commitment: traditionally related to business opening, contracts, hiring, property, or money movement.
- Trade or exchange · 交易Exchange and commitment: traditionally related to business opening, contracts, hiring, property, or money movement.
- Sign contracts · 立券Exchange and commitment: traditionally related to business opening, contracts, hiring, property, or money movement.
- Cut or tailor clothing · 裁衣Personal care or treatment: traditionally read around cleansing, body care, medical attention, or release work.
- Home structure work · 盖屋Construction or repair timing: traditionally used for physical structures, ground work, or major household setup.
- Lay foundations · 起基Construction or repair timing: traditionally used for physical structures, ground work, or major household setup.
- Renovate or build · 修造Construction or repair timing: traditionally used for physical structures, ground work, or major household setup.
- Break ground · 动土Construction or repair timing: traditionally used for physical structures, ground work, or major household setup.
- Install doors · 安门Household timing: traditionally connected with settling, arranging, cleaning, or adjusting the living space.
- Relocation · 移徙Household timing: traditionally connected with settling, arranging, cleaning, or adjusting the living space.
- Move into a home · 入宅Household timing: traditionally connected with settling, arranging, cleaning, or adjusting the living space.
- Planting · 栽种Land, harvest, or livestock activity: traditionally tied to cultivation, animals, water, or resource handling.
- Livestock care · 牧养Land, harvest, or livestock activity: traditionally tied to cultivation, animals, water, or resource handling.
- Hunting · 畋猎Land, harvest, or livestock activity: traditionally tied to cultivation, animals, water, or resource handling.
- Dig a well · 掘井Construction or repair timing: traditionally used for physical structures, ground work, or major household setup.
- Open a pond · 开池Construction or repair timing: traditionally used for physical structures, ground work, or major household setup.
- Burial · 安葬Ancestral or funerary rite: a traditional ritual category, not a general everyday recommendation.
- Burial ground work · 破土Construction or repair timing: traditionally used for physical structures, ground work, or major household setup.
- Encoffining rites · 入殓Ancestral or funerary rite: a traditional ritual category, not a general everyday recommendation.
- End mourning garments · 除服Ancestral or funerary rite: a traditional ritual category, not a general everyday recommendation.
- Begin mourning garments · 成服Ancestral or funerary rite: a traditional ritual category, not a general everyday recommendation.
- Set a monument · 立碑Ancestral or funerary rite: a traditional ritual category, not a general everyday recommendation.
The clash animal is Tiger. In traditional almanac reading, people whose zodiac is Tiger may use this as a reminder to slow down around high-stakes plans, formal commitments, or conflict-prone conversations. It is a symbolic caution cue, not a prediction of harm.
South is the day's caution direction. Traditionally, Sha direction is treated as a direction to handle with extra care for major starts, movement, renovation, or ceremonial activity. For everyday use, read it as a planning note, not as a rule that ordinary life must stop.
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Bing Shen Monkey
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