Chinese almanac for Saturday 22 June 2024
5th lunar month, day 17. A Fire Snake day (Ding Si, 丁巳), in a Metal Horse month (Geng Wu, 庚午) and a Wood Dragon year (Jia Chen, 甲辰).
- Day officer
- Close day (Bi, 闭)
- Ruling spirit
- Black Tortoise (Xuan Wu, 玄武), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Pig years (猪: 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007, 2019). The sha (煞) lies east.
Good for
Building and repairs (修造), Breaking ground (动土), Laying foundations (起基), Hanging a door (安门), Setting up the bed (安床), Planting (栽种), Building embankments (筑堤), Mending walls (补垣), Building animal pens (造畜稠)
Avoid
Weddings (嫁娶), Digging a well (掘井), Moving into a new home (入宅), Moving house (移徙), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Travel (出行), Funerals (行丧), Burials (安葬), Consecrating a statue (开光), Haircuts (理发), Taking in new household members (进人口)
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 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:15–06:15 | Unlucky | 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 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:15–14:15 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:15–16:15 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:15–18:15 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:15–20:15 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:15–22:15 | Lucky | 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 Yin Fire (Ding, 丁); 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.
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