Chinese almanac for Saturday 20 January 2024
12th lunar month, day 10. A Water Goat day (Gui Wei, 癸未), in a Wood Ox month (Yi Chou, 乙丑) and a Water Rabbit year (Gui Mao, 癸卯).
- Day officer
- Destruction day (Po, 破)
- Ruling spirit
- Black Tortoise (Xuan Wu, 玄武), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Ox years (牛: 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009, 2021). The sha (煞) lies west.
- Solar term
- Major Cold (Da Han, 大寒), at 22:07 Malaysia time
Good for
Pulling down a house (破屋), Knocking down walls (坏垣), Nothing else (馀事勿取)
Avoid
Everything else (诸事不宜)
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 84 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:24–14:24. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:24–02:24 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:24–04:24 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:24–06:24 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:24–08:24 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:24–10:24 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:24–12:24 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:24–14:24 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:24–16:24 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:24–18:24 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:24–20:24 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:24–22:24 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:24–00:24 | 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 Water (Gui, 癸); 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.
Gui days: do not go to law, or your case is weak and your opponent strong. (癸不词讼理弱敌强)
Goat days: do not take medicine, or poison enters the gut. (未不服药毒气入肠)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): southeast. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): south. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): northeast.
Choosing a date