Chinese almanac for Monday 23 September 2024
8th lunar month, day 21. A Metal Tiger day (Geng Yin, 庚寅), in a Water Rooster month (Gui You, 癸酉) and a Wood Dragon year (Jia Chen, 甲辰).
- Day officer
- Initiate day (Zhi, 执)
- Ruling spirit
- Green Dragon (Qing Long, 青龙), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Monkey years (猴: 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016). The sha (煞) lies north.
Good for
Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Knocking down walls (坏垣), 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 64 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:04–14:04. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:04–02:04 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:04–04:04 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:04–06:04 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:04–08:04 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:04–10:04 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:04–12:04 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:04–14:04 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:04–16:04 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:04–18:04 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:04–20:04 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:04–22:04 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:04–00:04 | 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 Metal (Geng, 庚); 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.
Geng days: do not string a loom, or it stands idle. (庚不经络织机虚张)
Tiger days: do not make offerings, or the spirits will not accept them. (寅不祭祀神鬼不尝)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): northwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): east. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southwest.
Choosing a date