Chinese almanac for Friday 11 October 2024
9th lunar month, day 9. An Earth Monkey day (Wu Shen, 戊申), in a Wood Dog month (Jia Xu, 甲戌) and a Wood Dragon year (Jia Chen, 甲辰).
- Day officer
- Open day (Kai, 开)
- Ruling spirit
- Golden Casket (Jin Kui, 金匮), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Tiger years (虎: 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010, 2022). The sha (煞) lies south.
Good for
Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Praying for children (求嗣), Consecrating a statue (开光), Opening a business (开市), Travel (出行), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Breaking ground (动土), Laying foundations (起基), Buying property (置产), Planting (栽种)
Avoid
Weddings (嫁娶), Building a stove (作灶), Repairing a grave (修坟), Hanging a door (安门), Moving into a new home (入宅), Setting up a tombstone (立碑), Burials (安葬), Setting up the bed (安床)
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 59 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 11:59–13:59. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 23:59–01:59 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 01:59–03:59 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 03:59–05:59 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 05:59–07:59 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 07:59–09:59 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 09:59–11:59 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 11:59–13:59 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 13:59–15:59 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 15:59–17:59 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 17:59–19:59 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 19:59–21:59 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 21:59–23:59 | 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 Wood Dog month (Jia Xu, 甲戌), has Yang Wood (Jia, 甲). 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)
Monkey days: do not set up a bed, or spirits enter the room. (申不安床鬼祟入房)
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