Chinese almanac for Friday 12 January 2024
12th lunar month, day 2. A Wood Pig day (Yi Hai, 乙亥), in a Wood Ox month (Yi Chou, 乙丑) and a Water Rabbit year (Gui Mao, 癸卯).
- Day officer
- Open day (Kai, 开)
- Ruling spirit
- Bright Hall (Ming Tang, 明堂), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Snake years (蛇: 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013, 2025). The sha (煞) lies west.
Good for
Offerings and worship (祭祀), Travel (出行), Ritual bathing (沐浴), Cutting cloth for clothes (裁衣), Praying for blessings (祈福), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Weddings (嫁娶), Installing machinery (安机械), Opening a business (开市), Signing contracts (立券), Installing a mill (安碓磑), Buying livestock (纳畜)
Avoid
Planting (栽种), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Burials (安葬)
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 82 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:22–14:22. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:22–02:22 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:22–04:22 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:22–06:22 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:22–08:22 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:22–10:22 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:22–12:22 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:22–14:22 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:22–16:22 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:22–18:22 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:22–20:22 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:22–22:22 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:22–00:22 | Lucky | 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 Yin Wood (Yi, 乙); 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.
Yi days: do not plant, or a thousand seedlings will not grow. (乙不栽植千株不长)
Pig days: do not marry, or it goes badly for the groom. (亥不嫁娶不利新郎)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): northwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): northeast. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southwest.
Choosing a date