Chinese almanac for Monday 11 November 2024

10th lunar month, day 11. An Earth Rabbit day (Ji Mao, 己卯), in a Wood Pig month (Yi Hai, 乙亥) and a Wood Dragon year (Jia Chen, 甲辰).

Day officer
Stable day (Ding, 定)
Ruling spirit
Black Tortoise (Xuan Wu, 玄武), a black-path, unlucky day
Clashes
People born in Rooster years (鸡: 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005, 2017). The sha (煞) lies west.

Good for

Weddings (嫁娶), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Praying for children (求嗣), Consecrating a statue (开光), Travel (出行), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Demolition (拆卸), Taking in new household members (进人口), Moving into a new home (入宅), Moving house (移徙), Setting up the bed (安床), Planting (栽种), Breaking ground (动土), Building and repairs (修造), Buying livestock (纳畜), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Burials (安葬), Setting up a tombstone (立碑), Taking off mourning clothes (除服), Putting on mourning clothes (成服)

Avoid

Nothing listed (无)

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

HourClock timeLuckClashes
Rat (子)23:58–01:58LuckyHorse (马)
Ox (丑)01:58–03:58UnluckyGoat (羊)
Tiger (寅)03:58–05:58LuckyMonkey (猴)
Rabbit (卯)05:58–07:58LuckyRooster (鸡)
Dragon (辰)07:58–09:58UnluckyDog (狗)
Snake (巳)09:58–11:58UnluckyPig (猪)
Horse (午)11:58–13:58LuckyRat (鼠)
Goat (未)13:58–15:58LuckyOx (牛)
Monkey (申)15:58–17:58UnluckyTiger (虎)
Rooster (酉)17:58–19:58LuckyRabbit (兔)
Dog (戌)19:58–21:58UnluckyDragon (龙)
Pig (亥)21:58–23:58UnluckySnake (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 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.

Ji days: do not break a contract, or both parties lose. (己不破券二比并亡)

Rabbit days: do not dig a well, or the water will not be sweet. (卯不穿井水泉不香)

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