Chinese almanac for Saturday 12 October 2024
9th lunar month, day 10. An Earth Rooster day (Ji You, 己酉), in a Wood Dog month (Jia Xu, 甲戌) and a Wood Dragon year (Jia Chen, 甲辰).
- Day officer
- Close day (Bi, 闭)
- Ruling spirit
- Heavenly Virtue (Tian De, 天德), 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), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Cutting cloth for clothes (裁衣), Haircuts (理发), Setting up the bed (安床), Building a stove (作灶), Building animal pens (造畜稠), Releasing water (放水), Building embankments (筑堤), Mending walls (补垣), Sealing holes (塞穴), Trimming nails (整手足甲), Cleaning the house (扫舍)
Avoid
Weddings (嫁娶), Consecrating a statue (开光), Visiting family and friends (会亲友), Digging a well (掘井), Hanging a door (安门), Planting (栽种)
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 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 03:59–05:59 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 05:59–07:59 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 07:59–09:59 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 09:59–11:59 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 11:59–13:59 | Lucky | 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 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 19:59–21:59 | Unlucky | 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 Yin Earth (Ji, 己); 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.
Ji days: do not break a contract, or both parties lose. (己不破券二比并亡)
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): northeast. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): north. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): north.
Choosing a date