Chinese almanac for Monday 30 September 2024
8th lunar month, day 28. A Fire Rooster day (Ding You, 丁酉), in a Water Rooster month (Gui You, 癸酉) and a Wood Dragon year (Jia Chen, 甲辰).
- Day officer
- Establish day (Jian, 建)
- Ruling spirit
- Jade Hall (Yu Tang, 玉堂), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Rabbit years (兔: 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011, 2023). The sha (煞) lies east.
Good for
Offerings and worship (祭祀), Travel (出行), Ritual bathing (沐浴), Cleaning the house (扫舍), Burials (安葬), Nothing else (馀事勿取)
Avoid
Breaking ground (动土), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Buying property (置产), Digging a well (掘井)
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 62 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:02–14:02. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:02–02:02 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:02–04:02 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:02–06:02 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:02–08:02 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:02–10:02 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:02–12:02 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:02–14:02 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:02–16:02 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:02–18:02 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:02–20:02 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:02–22:02 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:02–00:02 | 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 Yin Fire (Ding, 丁); 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.
Ding days: do not shave the head, or it breaks out in sores. (丁不剃头头必生疮)
Rooster days: do not receive guests, or they get drunk and wild. (酉不会客醉坐颠狂)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): south. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): southwest. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southeast.
Choosing a date