Chinese almanac for Saturday 9 March 2024
1st lunar month, day 29. A Water Monkey day (Ren Shen, 壬申), in a Fire Rabbit month (Ding Mao, 丁卯) and a Wood Dragon year (Jia Chen, 甲辰).
- Day officer
- Initiate day (Zhi, 执)
- Ruling spirit
- White Tiger (Bai Hu, 白虎), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Tiger years (虎: 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010, 2022). The sha (煞) lies south.
Good for
Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Cutting cloth for clothes (裁衣), Hanging the bridal curtains (合帐), Demolition (拆卸), Building and repairs (修造), Breaking ground (动土), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Laying foundations (起基), Moving a coffin (移柩), Burials (安葬), Thanking the earth after building (谢土), Ritual bathing (沐浴), Cleaning the house (扫舍), Cutting holes for pillars (开柱眼), Felling trees (伐木), Moving the altar out before works (出火)
Avoid
Setting up the bed (安床), Opening a business (开市), Signing contracts (立券), Building a stove (作灶)
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 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:24–04:24 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:24–06:24 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:24–08:24 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:24–10:24 | Lucky | 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 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:24–18:24 | Unlucky | 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 | 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 Water (Ren, 壬); this month, the Fire Rabbit month (Ding Mao, 丁卯), has Yin Fire (Ding, 丁). 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.
Ren days: do not release water, or it cannot be held back. (壬不泱水更难提防)
Monkey days: do not set up a bed, or spirits enter the room. (申不安床鬼祟入房)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): south. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): south. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southeast.
Choosing a date