Chinese almanac for Tuesday 23 April 2024
3rd lunar month, day 15. A Fire Snake day (Ding Si, 丁巳), in an Earth Dragon month (Wu Chen, 戊辰) and a Wood Dragon year (Jia Chen, 甲辰).
- Day officer
- Remove day (Chu, 除)
- Ruling spirit
- Bright Hall (Ming Tang, 明堂), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Pig years (猪: 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007, 2019). The sha (煞) lies east.
Good for
Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Praying for children (求嗣), Consecrating a statue (开光), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Planting (栽种), Buying livestock (纳畜), Raising livestock (牧养), Cleaning the house (扫舍), Taking in new household members (进人口)
Avoid
Repairing a grave (修坟), Building a bridge (造桥), Building a stove (作灶), Travel (出行), Burials (安葬), Roofing (盖屋), 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 71 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:11–14:11. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:11–02:11 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:11–04:11 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:11–06:11 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:11–08:11 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:11–10:11 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:11–12:11 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:11–14:11 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:11–16:11 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:11–18:11 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:11–20:11 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:11–22:11 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:11–00:11 | 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 Fire (Ding, 丁); 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.
Ding days: do not shave the head, or it breaks out in sores. (丁不剃头头必生疮)
Snake days: do not travel far, or your goods go missing. (巳不远行财物伏藏)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): south. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): southwest. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southeast.
Choosing a date