Chinese almanac for Sunday 11 August 2024
7th lunar month, day 8. A Fire Goat day (Ding Wei, 丁未), in a Water Monkey month (Ren Shen, 壬申) and a Wood Dragon year (Jia Chen, 甲辰).
- Day officer
- Close day (Bi, 闭)
- Ruling spirit
- Jade Hall (Yu Tang, 玉堂), 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
Weddings (嫁娶), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Praying for children (求嗣), Travel (出行), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Demolition (拆卸), Building and repairs (修造), Moving house (移徙), Breaking ground (动土), Setting up the bed (安床), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Burials (安葬), Opening a grave for reburial (启钻)
Avoid
Roofing (盖屋), Consecrating a statue (开光), Haircuts (理发), Building a boat (造船), Digging a well (掘井), Building a stove (作灶)
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 78 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:18–14:18. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:18–02:18 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:18–04:18 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:18–06:18 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:18–08:18 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:18–10:18 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:18–12:18 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:18–14:18 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:18–16:18 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:18–18:18 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:18–20:18 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:18–22:18 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:18–00:18 | 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 Water Monkey month (Ren Shen, 壬申), has Yang Water (Ren, 壬). 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)
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): south. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): southwest. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southeast.
Choosing a date