Rain Water 雨水

What it marks

Snow gives way to rain and the ground begins to soften. The old almanacs treat this as the moment the year's moisture arrives — the first of the growing conditions rather than the growth itself.

Traditionally favours

• preparing ground
• repairs
• mending relationships
• quiet planning

A preparation window. Traditionally read as better for getting ready than for launching.

These are the tradition’s tendencies, not guarantees — and a solar term describes a stretch of weeks, so for a specific day check today’s almanac, which reads the day’s own 宜 and 忌.