Chinese almanac for Saturday 21 September 2024
8th lunar month, day 19. An Earth Rat day (Wu Zi, 戊子), in a Water Rooster month (Gui You, 癸酉) and a Wood Dragon year (Jia Chen, 甲辰).
- Day officer
- Balance day (Ping, 平)
- Ruling spirit
- Keeper of Fate (Si Ming, 司命), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Horse years (马: 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014, 2026). The sha (煞) lies south.
Good for
Offerings and worship (祭祀), Ritual bathing (沐浴), Plastering walls (修饰垣墙), Levelling roads (平治道涂), Nothing else (馀事勿取)
Avoid
Everything else (诸事不宜)
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 65 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:05–14:05. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:05–02:05 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:05–04:05 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:05–06:05 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:05–08:05 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:05–10:05 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:05–12:05 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:05–14:05 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:05–16:05 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:05–18:05 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:05–20:05 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:05–22:05 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:05–00:05 | 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 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.
Wu days: do not take on land, or the owner has no luck with it. (戊不受田田主不祥)
Rat days: do not consult a diviner, or you bring trouble on yourself. (子不问卜自惹祸殃)
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