Chinese almanac for Monday 12 August 2024
7th lunar month, day 9. An Earth Monkey day (Wu Shen, 戊申), in a Water Monkey month (Ren Shen, 壬申) and a Wood Dragon year (Jia Chen, 甲辰).
- Day officer
- Establish day (Jian, 建)
- Ruling spirit
- Heavenly Prison (Tian Lao, 天牢), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Tiger years (虎: 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010, 2022). The sha (煞) lies south.
Good for
Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Praying for children (求嗣), Consecrating a statue (开光), Travel (出行), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Roofing (盖屋), Moving house (移徙), Hanging a door (安门), Receiving money (纳财), Raising livestock (牧养), Buying livestock (纳畜), Burials (安葬), Opening a grave for reburial (启钻), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓)
Avoid
Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Buying property (置产), Digging a well (掘井), Breaking ground (动土), Setting up the bed (安床)
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 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:18–04:18 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:18–06:18 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:18–08:18 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:18–10:18 | Lucky | 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 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:18–18:18 | Unlucky | 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 | 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 Yang Earth (Wu, 戊); 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.
Wu days: do not take on land, or the owner has no luck with it. (戊不受田田主不祥)
Monkey days: do not set up a bed, or spirits enter the room. (申不安床鬼祟入房)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): southeast. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): north. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): northeast.
Choosing a date