Chinese almanac for Friday 31 May 2024
4th lunar month, day 24. A Wood Goat day (Yi Wei, 乙未), in an Earth Snake month (Ji Si, 己巳) and a Wood Dragon year (Jia Chen, 甲辰).
- Day officer
- Full day (Man, 满)
- Ruling spirit
- Bright Hall (Ming Tang, 明堂), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Ox years (牛: 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009, 2021). The sha (煞) lies west.
Good for
Consecrating a statue (开光), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Cutting cloth for clothes (裁衣), Coming-of-age rites (冠笄), Setting up the bed (安床), Building a stove (作灶), Taking in new household members (进人口), Building a storehouse (造仓), Sealing holes (塞穴)
Avoid
Weddings (嫁娶), Planting (栽种), Building and repairs (修造), Breaking ground (动土), Travel (出行), Felling trees (伐木), Making beams (作梁), Burials (安葬), Thanking the earth after building (谢土)
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 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:11–06:11 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:11–08:11 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:11–10:11 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:11–12:11 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:11–14:11 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:11–16:11 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:11–18:11 | Lucky | 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 Wood (Yi, 乙); this month, the Earth Snake month (Ji Si, 己巳), has Yin Earth (Ji, 己). 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)
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): northwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): northeast. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southwest.
Choosing a date