Chinese almanac for Tuesday 18 June 2024
5th lunar month, day 13. A Water Ox day (Gui Chou, 癸丑), in a Metal Horse month (Geng Wu, 庚午) and a Wood Dragon year (Jia Chen, 甲辰).
- Day officer
- Danger day (Wei, 危)
- Ruling spirit
- Heavenly Virtue (Tian De, 天德), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Goat years (羊: 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003, 2015). The sha (煞) lies east.
Good for
Opening a business (开市), Trading (交易), Signing contracts (立券), Receiving money (纳财), Digging a pond (开池), Building a toilet (开厕), Making nets (结网), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Building and repairs (修造), Breaking ground (动土), Setting up the bed (安床), Releasing water (放水), Setting up a loom (经络), Breaking ground for a grave (破土)
Avoid
Weddings (嫁娶), Building a bridge (造桥), Lawsuits (词讼), Moving house (移徙), Hanging a door (安门), Building a stove (作灶), Planting (栽种)
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 74 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:14–14:14. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:14–02:14 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:14–04:14 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:14–06:14 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:14–08:14 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:14–10:14 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:14–12:14 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:14–14:14 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:14–16:14 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:14–18:14 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:14–20:14 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:14–22:14 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:14–00:14 | 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 Metal Horse month (Geng Wu, 庚午), has Yang Metal (Geng, 庚). 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)
Ox days: do not put on the cap of office, or you will not return home. (丑不冠带主不还乡)
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