Chinese almanac for Sunday 7 January 2024
11th lunar month, day 26. A Metal Horse day (Geng Wu, 庚午), in a Wood Ox month (Yi Chou, 乙丑) and a Water Rabbit year (Gui Mao, 癸卯).
- Day officer
- Initiate day (Zhi, 执)
- Ruling spirit
- Heavenly Prison (Tian Lao, 天牢), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Rat years (鼠: 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020). The sha (煞) lies north.
Good for
Offerings and worship (祭祀), Visiting family and friends (会亲友), Travel (出行), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Ritual bathing (沐浴), Building and repairs (修造), Breaking ground (动土), Praying for blessings (祈福), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮), Weddings (嫁娶), Demolition (拆卸), Setting up the bed (安床), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Moving a coffin (移柩), Burials (安葬), Thanking the earth after building (谢土), Taking up a new post (赴任), Cutting cloth for clothes (裁衣), Raising pillars (竖柱), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Felling trees (伐木), Catching pests (捕捉), Planting (栽种), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Hanging a door (安门)
Avoid
Roofing (盖屋), Opening a business (开市), Building a stove (作灶), Moving into a new home (入宅)
The good-for and avoid lists come from the open-source lunar calendar library (6tail), whose author built them from a popular Chinese calendar website’s data. Almanacs differ on these lists, and unlike the rest of this site they are not quoted from a classical text. How the rest is worked out
The hours, on the clock in Kuala Lumpur
Almanacs give the hours by the sun: the Horse hour is 11 to 1, when the sun is highest. In Kuala Lumpur today the sun runs 80 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:20–14:20. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:20–02:20 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:20–04:20 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:20–06:20 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:20–08:20 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:20–10:20 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:20–12:20 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:20–14:20 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:20–16:20 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:20–18:20 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:20–20:20 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:20–22:20 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:20–00:20 | Unlucky | Snake (蛇) |
Lucky or unlucky by the spirit ruling the hour: six walk the yellow path and are lucky (Green Dragon, Bright Hall, Golden Casket, Heavenly Virtue, Jade Hall, Keeper of Fate); the other six walk the black path.
This day for each day master
BaZi reads a day by what its stem is to your day master, and a month by the month’s stem. This day’s stem is Yang Metal (Geng, 庚); this month, the Wood Ox month (Yi Chou, 乙丑), has Yin Wood (Yi, 乙). Each links to what the classics say about it. Don’t know your day master? Read each day against your whole chart
The Peng Zu taboos
A rhyme every almanac prints: one line for the day’s stem, one for its branch.
Geng days: do not string a loom, or it stands idle. (庚不经络织机虚张)
Horse days: do not thatch a roof, or it must be done again. (午不苫盖屋主更张)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): northwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): east. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southwest.
Choosing a date