Chinese almanac for Friday 6 December 2024
11th lunar month, day 6. A Wood Dragon day (Jia Chen, 甲辰), in a Fire Rat month (Bing Zi, 丙子) and a Wood Dragon year (Jia Chen, 甲辰).
- Day officer
- Stable day (Ding, 定)
- Ruling spirit
- Heavenly Prison (Tian Lao, 天牢), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Dog years (狗: 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006, 2018). The sha (煞) lies south.
- Solar term
- Major Snow (Da Xue, 大雪), at 23:17 Malaysia time
Good for
Praying for children (求嗣), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮), Making holy images (塑绘), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Demolition (拆卸), Building and repairs (修造), Breaking ground (动土), Building a bridge (造桥), Installing machinery (安机械), Planting (栽种), Buying livestock (纳畜), Raising livestock (牧养), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Taking off mourning clothes (除服), Putting on mourning clothes (成服), Moving a coffin (移柩), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Burials (安葬)
Avoid
Opening a business (开市), Weddings (嫁娶)
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 66 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:06–14:06. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:06–02:06 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:06–04:06 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:06–06:06 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:06–08:06 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:06–10:06 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:06–12:06 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:06–14:06 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:06–16:06 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:06–18:06 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:06–20:06 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:06–22:06 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:06–00:06 | Lucky | 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 Wood (Jia, 甲); this month, the Fire Rat month (Bing Zi, 丙子), has Yang Fire (Bing, 丙). 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.
Jia days: do not open the storehouse, or goods and money drain away. (甲不开仓财物耗散)
Dragon days: do not weep, or another death follows. (辰不哭泣必主重丧)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): northeast. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): northeast. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): north.
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