Traditional systems New Year first-footer check Find a well-matched first visitor for Tết, with birth years and reasons.
Start Knowledge › Eastern › Lunar calendar Lunar to solar conversion uses no fixed addition table. It relies on the new moon point, major solar terms and legal time zones, so it differs year by year.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Eastern › Lunar calendar Two calendars can give different lunar dates for the same solar day because they use different legal time zones, such as Vietnam at UTC+7 and China at UTC+8.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Western › Astrology The New Moon marks the start of a lunar cycle of about 29.5 days, a phase for setting intentions and beginning new projects.
Updated 26 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Astrology The First Quarter Moon in astrology signals tension that drives action, a time to face challenges, make decisions and adjust plans.
Updated 26 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Lunar calendar How a lunar leap month is determined, why leap years exist, and why one lunar day in a leap year corresponds to two solar days.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Western › Tarot Explore the detailed symbolism and deep meaning of The Moon tarot card, from its imagery and symbols to its interpretation in readings.
Updated 10 Sept 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Western › Tarot Placing The Sun beside The Moon contrasts the light and dark poles of the Major Arcana. What Waite wrote, how the pair is read today, and its limits.
Updated 1 Oct 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Western › Astrology Discover the Moon Sign in astrology: its definition, how to calculate it, and how it differs from the Sun sign (the usual zodiac sign).
Updated 27 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Astrology Alan Leo (1910) gave the Sun sign to the individual and the Moon sign to the personality, reading 144 pairs together. We read his text and note its limits.
Updated 1 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Astrology The Waxing Crescent Moon is the first phase after the New Moon, symbolizing beginnings, willpower and action in astrology.
Updated 24 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Numerology Number 1 as the Sun and number 2 as the Moon is a convention of modern numerology, spread by Cheiro's 1926 book. We read his text and the test results.
Updated 1 Oct 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Western › Astrology The Waxing Crescent Moon is the phase right after the New Moon. In astrology it is a time to plant seeds of intention and take small, decisive actions.
Updated 8 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Astrology The waning moon is the phase of decreasing light after the Full Moon, a time for release, purification, and introspection in astrology.
Updated 20 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Astrology Explore the astrological meaning of the Full Moon: emotional peak, culmination, and the impact of the lunar cycle on human life.
Updated 14 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui In Ngũ Quyết Loan Đầu feng shui, an acupoint is where earth energy veins converge. See the operating principles, key point types, and identification methods.
Updated 14 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Astrology The Waning Crescent Moon is the last phase of the lunar cycle, a time for release, rest and recovery before a new cycle begins.
Updated 20 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Tarot New Year Tarot spreads include 12-month layouts and themed spreads, with meanings for each position and a reflective, non-superstitious approach.
Updated 16 Aug 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Western › Astrology The Last Quarter Moon in astrology marks a time of release and realignment, with practical notes for daily life as the cycle turns.
Updated 24 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Astrology Cancer and the Moon share a ruling planet bond in astrology, shaping emotion, instinct, intuition, and the need for family security.
Updated 3 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities Comparing Lunar New Year of the Kinh, Chôl Chnăm Thmay of the Khmer, and ethnic groups with their own calendars: timing, offerings, rituals, and names.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Zi Wei Dou Shu Thái Âm, the Moon Star in Purple Star Astrology: its lunar origin, gentle inward nature, and readings for Life, Wealth, and Marriage palaces.
Updated 27 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Astrology The Moon in astrology rules emotions, the subconscious and instinct, and shows how you nurture others and seek security in your birth chart.
Updated 22 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Lunar calendar Vietnamese and Chinese Tet differ because the new moon is calculated in different time zones and leap months follow different rules.
Updated 16 Oct 2026 Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The New Rice Festival of the M'Nong in the Central Highlands thanks the heavens and the rice spirit, with a buffalo sacrifice at its heart.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Festival customs Vietnamese Lunar New Year customs: the Kitchen Gods send-off, New Year's Eve rites, first-footing, and lucky money, with the meaning behind each.
Updated 5 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites Chôl Chnăm Thmây is the Khmer New Year, held in mid-April over three days with rituals like the Maha Sangkran procession and bathing the Buddha.
Updated 5 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Regions Tet customs in Northern, Central, and Southern Vietnam share roots but differ in dishes and rituals, from banh chung to bitter melon soup.
Updated 10 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites Tết Nguyên Tiêu, the first full moon of the lunar year, is greatly valued in Vietnamese culture. See why it matters and what to prepare for the offering tray.
Updated 23 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites The New Rice Festival of the Cao Lan people in Tuyên Quang gives thanks to ancestors and nature after the harvest, with a neu tree and new rice.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The New Rice Festival is when the Xơ Đăng people of the Central Highlands thank the gods and spirits for a bountiful harvest.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief The Nàng Hai Festival of the Tay people in Cao Bằng is a national intangible cultural heritage honoring the Moon Mother and her 12 fairy daughters.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Festival customs Rằm Tháng Giêng, the lunar year's first full moon, brings temple visits and star-releasing rites, with the saying "a year of offerings cannot match this one.
Updated 20 Jun 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching In the I Ching the Li trigram stands for the sun and Kan for the moon. Where the classic texts say so, how commentators explain it, and how schools differ.
Updated 1 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional food The Hue Tet feast blends royal essence with folk culture, shaped by a philosophy of frugality, elegance, harmony and transformation.
Updated 28 Jun 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Rija Nâgar is the main new year rite of the Brahmanist Chăm: a prayer for good rain and harvest and a sending off of the misfortunes of the old year.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites A guide to preparing New Year's Eve offerings, arranging the outdoor and indoor trays by Vietnamese custom, with safety notes and regional differences.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites Khụ Sự Chà, the Hà Nhì New Rice Festival in Mường Nhé, Điện Biên, thanks ancestors with floating cakes, pig liver divination and glutinous rice pounding.
Updated 29 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief A new car blessing usually has flowers, fruit, roast pork or chicken or a vegetarian tray, salt, rice, wine, tea and votive paper, set before the car.
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites New Year's Day in Vietnam comes from the Gregorian calendar, adopted in the French colonial period, and later became an official public holiday.
Updated 16 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Games Who should first-foot your home this Tết, plus a New Year card.
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