Lunar day 4
The lunar day turns at moonrise, not midnight, so day 4 rarely lines up with a calendar date — most dates hold two different readings. Everything below is traditional material, quoted as it was received.
Favoured on lunar day 4
- Deep clean
- Deep cleaning is named outright as beneficial for both the home and one's mood on this day.
- Nails
- The tradition counts the fourth lunar day as excellent for a manicure or pedicure.
- Plant or sow
- The tradition regards the fourth lunar day as excellent for sowing and planting.
- Time with family
- The tradition names this as an excellent day for being with family and visiting parents.
- Clear things out
- The 4th lunar day is considered excellent for decluttering, said to lift both the home and one's mood.
- Pay attention to dreams
- The tradition holds that dreams on this day can be prophetic and are worth remembering and interpreting.
- A beauty treatment
- Spa treatments and facial masks are considered beneficial on this day.
- Cut my hair
- One of the strongest days in the tradition for a new cut.
- Exercise or train
- The tradition favours moderate, mindful training on this day, with controlled rather than explosive effort.
- Make something
- This day is said to favour making things, particularly finishing what is already underway or working with your hands.
- Move or renovate
- This day is considered excellent for home work up to and including major renovations.
- Apologise or make up
- The tradition treats this as a day for forgiving those who hurt you and warming family ties.
- Fix or repair something
- The tradition treats the 4th lunar day as excellent for home work of any scale, including repair and renovation projects.
- Get married
- This day is held to favour warm family gathering and reconciliation, which suits an occasion that brings families together.
- Have a hard conversation
- This day is linked with family warmth and forgiveness, which the tradition sees as supportive of clearing up old hurts.
- Start learning something
- This day is said to have little influence of its own, so taking up a new subject depends entirely on your own energy and motivation.
- Study or sit an exam
- Study is said to depend entirely on your own motivation today, while exams are considered less well supported.
Discouraged on lunar day 4
- Prune or cut back
- The tradition advises leaving pruning for another day.
- Travel
- The tradition considers this a poor day for travel, holding that movement and changes of surroundings bring tension and dissatisfaction.
- Compete or push hard
- This day is described as grounded and introspective, so controlled movement is preferred over explosive pushing.
- Negotiate or ask for a raise
- The tradition holds this to be a day for paperwork rather than people, so important talks and decisions are best postponed.
- Sign a contract
- The tradition favours paperwork and checking over commitment on this day, warning against important decisions such as signing.
- Start something new
- With important decisions and dealings with people said to be best postponed, the tradition does not favour launching something new on this day.
- Make a big purchase
- This day is held to be for routine paperwork rather than important decisions such as a major purchase.
How much weight to give this
This is inherited material, not a finding. When we checked these readings against the tradition's own named authorities, they contradicted each other on all 29 lunar days — the same day called auspicious by one source and ruinous by another. We publish what the corpus says and label it, rather than choosing the most confident version and calling it settled.
What is exact is the astronomy: when day 4 begins and ends where you are, down to the minute.