Chinese almanac for Saturday 20 July 2024
6th lunar month, day 15. A Wood Rooster day (Yi You, 乙酉), in a Metal Goat month (Xin Wei, 辛未) and a Wood Dragon year (Jia Chen, 甲辰).
- Day officer
- Full day (Man, 满)
- Ruling spirit
- Hook Array (Gou Chen, 勾陈), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Rabbit years (兔: 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011, 2023). The sha (煞) lies east.
Good for
Weddings (嫁娶), Consecrating a statue (开光), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Setting up the bed (安床), Raising livestock (牧养), Haircuts (理发), Opening a business (开市), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Opening a grave for reburial (启钻), Moving a coffin (移柩), Burials (安葬), Cleaning the house (扫舍)
Avoid
Building a stove (作灶), Breaking ground (动土), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Planting (栽种), Moving into a new home (入宅), Moving house (移徙), Building and repairs (修造), Praying for blessings (祈福)
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 79 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:19–14:19. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:19–02:19 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:19–04:19 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:19–06:19 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:19–08:19 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:19–10:19 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:19–12:19 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:19–14:19 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:19–16:19 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:19–18:19 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:19–20:19 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:19–22:19 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:19–00:19 | Unlucky | 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 Metal Goat month (Xin Wei, 辛未), has Yin Metal (Xin, 辛). 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)
Rooster days: do not receive guests, or they get drunk and wild. (酉不会客醉坐颠狂)
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