Chinese almanac for Tuesday 15 October 2024
9th lunar month, day 13. A Water Rat day (Ren Zi, 壬子), in a Wood Dog month (Jia Xu, 甲戌) and a Wood Dragon year (Jia Chen, 甲辰).
- Day officer
- Full day (Man, 满)
- Ruling spirit
- Heavenly Prison (Tian Lao, 天牢), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Horse years (马: 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014, 2026). The sha (煞) lies south.
Good for
Opening a business (开市), Trading (交易), Signing contracts (立券), Receiving money (纳财), Visiting family and friends (会亲友), Consecrating a statue (开光), Haircuts (理发), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Moving a coffin (移柩), Burials (安葬), Opening a grave for reburial (启钻)
Avoid
Weddings (嫁娶), Building a stove (作灶), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Travel (出行), Moving into a new home (入宅), Moving house (移徙), Setting up the bed (安床), Praying for blessings (祈福), Raising the roof beam (上梁)
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 58 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 11:58–13:58. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 23:58–01:58 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 01:58–03:58 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 03:58–05:58 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 05:58–07:58 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 07:58–09:58 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 09:58–11:58 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 11:58–13:58 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 13:58–15:58 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 15:58–17:58 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 17:58–19:58 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 19:58–21:58 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 21:58–23:58 | 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 Water (Ren, 壬); 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.
Ren days: do not release water, or it cannot be held back. (壬不泱水更难提防)
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): south. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): south. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southeast.
Choosing a date