Chinese almanac for Sunday 15 September 2024
8th lunar month, day 13. A Water Horse day (Ren Wu, 壬午), in a Water Rooster month (Gui You, 癸酉) and a Wood Dragon year (Jia Chen, 甲辰).
- Day officer
- Receive day (Shou, 收)
- Ruling spirit
- Golden Casket (Jin Kui, 金匮), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Rat years (鼠: 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020). The sha (煞) lies north.
Good for
Offerings and worship (祭祀), Haircuts (理发), Visiting family and friends (会亲友), Taking in new household members (进人口), Weddings (嫁娶), Acupuncture (针灸), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Moving a coffin (移柩)
Avoid
Visiting the sick (探病), Digging channels (开渠), Burials (安葬), Felling trees (伐木), Building a stove (作灶), Moving into a new home (入宅)
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 67 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:07–14:07. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:07–02:07 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:07–04:07 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:07–06:07 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:07–08:07 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:07–10:07 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:07–12:07 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:07–14:07 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:07–16:07 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:07–18:07 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:07–20:07 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:07–22:07 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:07–00:07 | 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 Water (Ren, 壬); 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.
Ren days: do not release water, or it cannot be held back. (壬不泱水更难提防)
Horse days: do not thatch a roof, or it must be done again. (午不苫盖屋主更张)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): south. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): south. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southeast.
Choosing a date