Chinese almanac for Saturday 14 September 2024
8th lunar month, day 12. A Metal Snake day (Xin Si, 辛巳), in a Water Rooster month (Gui You, 癸酉) and a Wood Dragon year (Jia Chen, 甲辰).
- Day officer
- Success day (Cheng, 成)
- Ruling spirit
- Vermilion Bird (Zhu Que, 朱雀), 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
Opening a business (开市), Trading (交易), Signing contracts (立券), Hanging a signboard (挂匾), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Consecrating a statue (开光), Taking in new household members (进人口), Moving into a new home (入宅), Setting up the bed (安床), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Demolition (拆卸), Building and repairs (修造), Breaking ground (动土), Planting (栽种)
Avoid
Weddings (嫁娶), Setting up a tombstone (立碑), Travel (出行), Felling trees (伐木), Burials (安葬), Funerals (行丧), Moving house (移徙), Buying livestock (纳畜)
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 68 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:08–14:08. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:08–02:08 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:08–04:08 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:08–06:08 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:08–08:08 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:08–10:08 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:08–12:08 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:08–14:08 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:08–16:08 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:08–18:08 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:08–20:08 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:08–22:08 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:08–00:08 | 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 Metal (Xin, 辛); this month, the Water Rooster month (Gui You, 癸酉), has Yin Water (Gui, 癸). 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.
Xin days: do not make sauce, or the master will never taste it. (辛不合酱主人不尝)
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): southwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): east. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): northwest.
Choosing a date