Chinese almanac for Friday 8 November 2024
10th lunar month, day 8. A Fire Rat day (Bing Zi, 丙子), in a Wood Pig month (Yi Hai, 乙亥) and a Wood Dragon year (Jia Chen, 甲辰).
- Day officer
- Remove day (Chu, 除)
- Ruling spirit
- White Tiger (Bai Hu, 白虎), 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
Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮), Making holy images (塑绘), Consecrating a statue (开光), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Cutting cloth for clothes (裁衣), Coming-of-age rites (冠笄), Weddings (嫁娶), Demolition (拆卸), Moving into a new home (入宅), Setting up the home altar (安香), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Moving a coffin (移柩), Haircuts (理发), Burials (安葬), Repairing a grave (修坟), Thanking the earth after building (谢土), Taking up a new post (赴任), Moving house (移徙), Ritual bathing (沐浴), Medical treatment (治病), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Opening a grave for reburial (启钻), Trimming nails (整手足甲), Starting school (入学), Making beams (作梁)
Avoid
Opening a business (开市)
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 57 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 11:57–13:57. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 23:57–01:57 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 01:57–03:57 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 03:57–05:57 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 05:57–07:57 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 07:57–09:57 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 09:57–11:57 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 11:57–13:57 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 13:57–15:57 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 15:57–17:57 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 17:57–19:57 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 19:57–21:57 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 21:57–23:57 | 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 Fire (Bing, 丙); this month, the Wood Pig month (Yi Hai, 乙亥), has Yin Wood (Yi, 乙). 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.
Bing days: do not repair the stove, or disaster follows. (丙不修灶必见灾殃)
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): southwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): southwest. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): northwest.
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