Today is March 5, 2025—the 64th day of the Gregorian year—with 301 days remaining until the year’s end.
According to the Chinese almanac, March 5 is designated as a “Po Day” (破日) within the Twelve-Star system, a day that connotes rupture and disruption. It is traditionally advised to refrain from undertaking any significant endeavors—whether auspicious or inauspicious—on such a day. Nonetheless, it is also described as a “Huangdao Auspicious Day,” a paradox that underscores its complex nature.
Today’s Date and Astrological Details
• Gregorian Calendar: Wednesday, March 5, 2025
• Lunar Calendar: Year 2025, Second Month, Sixth Day
• Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches: Year – Yi Si (乙巳); Month – Wu Yin (戊寅); Day – Gui You (癸酉)
• Chinese Zodiac: Snake
• Clash: Today is a Chicken day that clashes with the Rabbit (丁卯), with adverse energies emanating from the east.
• Fetal Deity: Positioned outside the bed’s door toward the southwest.
• Western Zodiac: Pisces
• Peng Zu’s Prognostication: “Gui does not engage in litigation, weak in argument when confronting strong adversaries; You does not host banquets, prone to inebriation and unbridled behavior.”
• Festival: China Youth Volunteer Service Day (also known as Lei Feng Memorial Day)
• Solar Term: Awakening of Insects (Jingzhe) at 16:07:02
Zodiac Clash
Today is governed by the energy of the Rooster, which conflicts with the Rabbit. According to traditional principles, individuals born under the sign of the Rabbit should exercise extra caution.
Is Today Auspicious?
Recommended Activities:
– Exchanging betrothal gifts and formalizing matrimonial alliances
– Conducting ceremonies, offering prayers, and burning incense
– Managing fire-related tasks, undertaking construction, and traveling
– Launching businesses, relocating, moving into new homes
– Engaging in earth-moving activities, interment, and groundbreaking ceremonies
Activities to Avoid:
– Arranging beds, setting up stoves, building boats
– Hosting gatherings with relatives or friends
Due to the “Po Day” designation—which implies inherent instability and the potential for disruption—today is generally not considered favorable for major undertakings.
Favorable Directions
– Wealth Deity (Cai Shen): Due south
– Luck and Fortune Deities: Both are situated to the southeast
Auspicious Hours Today
- Yin Hour (3:00–4:59 AM) – Auspicious
– Hourly Clash: Conflicts with the Monkey; negative influence from the north
– Recommended: Engagements, marriages, setting up beds, relocating, moving into a new home, construction, interment, assuming official duties, meeting dignitaries, travel, and financial pursuits
– Avoid: Ritual sacrifices, prayer ceremonies, fasting, and appeasing deities - Si Hour (9:00–10:59 AM) – Auspicious
– Hourly Clash: Conflicts with the Pig; negative influence from the east
– Recommended: Prayers, seeking offspring, travel, financial endeavors, and marriage
– Avoid: Consecration rituals, construction, and interment - Wu Hour (11:00 AM–12:59 PM) – Auspicious
– Hourly Clash: Conflicts with the Rat; negative influence from the north
– Recommended: Engagements, marriages, launching businesses, interment, and construction
– Avoid: Ritual prayers, seeking offspring, and boating - Wei Hour (1:00–2:59 PM) – Auspicious
– Hourly Clash: Conflicts with the Ox; negative influence from the west
– Recommended: Ceremonies, prayers, fasting, deity appeasement, construction, cooking, meeting dignitaries, financial pursuits, marriage, expanding the household, relocation, and interment
– Avoid: Assuming official duties and travel
On This Day in History – March 5
Festivals:
• China Youth Volunteer Service Day (Lei Feng Memorial Day)
Major Historical Events:
• 1792: The Cheng Yi edition of Dream of the Red Chamber was published.
• 1836: Samuel Colt invented the revolver.
• 1918: Sun Yat-sen summoned Chiang Kai-shek to Guangzhou via telegram and entrusted him with pivotal responsibilities.
• 1927: Mao Zedong’s Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan was published.
• 1933: Amid the Great Depression, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared a nationwide bank holiday, freezing all financial transactions.
• 1933: In a parliamentary election, the German Nazi Party secured 44% of the seats, granting Hitler the mandate to form a government.
• 1946: In Fulton, USA, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill famously coined the term “Iron Curtain” to describe the division between the Eastern and Western blocs in Europe.
• 1958: The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region was officially established.
• 1963: Mao Zedong inscribed the call, “Learn from Comrade Lei Feng.”
• 1978: Twenty-four years after the first constitution was promulgated, China adopted a new constitution.
• 1979: The former residence of Zhou Enlai was officially opened.
• 1994: The “Law on the Protection of Investment by Taiwan Compatriots in the People’s Republic of China” was enacted and implemented.
Notable Births:
• 1886: Dong Biwu, one of the founders of the Communist Party of China, was born.
• 1897: Soong Mei-ling, wife of Chiang Kai-shek, was born (she passed away in 2003).
• 1898: Zhou Enlai—the illustrious revolutionary, statesman, military strategist, and diplomat, as well as a principal architect of the People’s Liberation Army—was born.
• 1920: Renowned modern Chinese writer Wang Zengqi was born.
Notable Deaths:
• 1827: Alessandro Volta, the Italian physicist and inventor of the battery (born February 18, 1745), passed away.
• 1940: Cai Yuanpei, the eminent Chinese educator (born in 1868), died.
• 1953: Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the paramount leader of the USSR, died.
• 2024: Chen Guixiang, a survivor of the Nanjing Massacre, passed away at the age of 99.