Chinese almanac for Sunday 10 November 2024
10th lunar month, day 10. An Earth Tiger day (Wu Yin, 戊寅), in a Wood Pig month (Yi Hai, 乙亥) and a Wood Dragon year (Jia Chen, 甲辰).
- Day officer
- Balance day (Ping, 平)
- Ruling spirit
- Heavenly Prison (Tian Lao, 天牢), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Monkey years (猴: 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016). The sha (煞) lies north.
Good for
Opening a business (开市), Trading (交易), Signing contracts (立券), Hanging a signboard (挂匾), Receiving money (纳财), Consecrating a statue (开光), Travel (出行), Moving into a new home (入宅), Moving house (移徙), Setting up the bed (安床), Buying livestock (纳畜), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Moving a coffin (移柩), Burials (安葬)
Avoid
Planting (栽种), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Buying property (置产), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Weddings (嫁娶), Breaking ground (动土), Building a stove (作灶), Praying for blessings (祈福)
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 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 07:58–09:58 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 09:58–11:58 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 11:58–13:58 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 13:58–15:58 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 15:58–17:58 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 17:58–19:58 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 19:58–21:58 | Lucky | 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 Earth (Wu, 戊); 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.
Wu days: do not take on land, or the owner has no luck with it. (戊不受田田主不祥)
Tiger days: do not make offerings, or the spirits will not accept them. (寅不祭祀神鬼不尝)
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