Chinese almanac for Wednesday 10 April 2024
3rd lunar month, day 2. A Wood Dragon day (Jia Chen, 甲辰), in an Earth Dragon month (Wu Chen, 戊辰) and a Wood Dragon year (Jia Chen, 甲辰).
- Day officer
- Establish day (Jian, 建)
- Ruling spirit
- Green Dragon (Qing Long, 青龙), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Dog years (狗: 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006, 2018). The sha (煞) lies south.
Good for
Travel (出行), Plastering walls (修饰垣墙), Building animal pens (造畜稠), Training cattle and horses (教牛马), 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 75 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:15–14:15. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:15–02:15 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:15–04:15 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:15–06:15 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:15–08:15 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:15–10:15 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:15–12:15 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:15–14:15 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:15–16:15 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:15–18:15 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:15–20:15 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:15–22:15 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:15–00:15 | 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 Yang Wood (Jia, 甲); this month, the Earth Dragon month (Wu Chen, 戊辰), has Yang Earth (Wu, 戊). 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.
Jia days: do not open the storehouse, or goods and money drain away. (甲不开仓财物耗散)
Dragon days: do not weep, or another death follows. (辰不哭泣必主重丧)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): northeast. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): northeast. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): north.
Choosing a date