Chinese almanac for Wednesday 11 December 2024
11th lunar month, day 11. An Earth Rooster day (Ji You, 己酉), in a Fire Rat month (Bing Zi, 丙子) and a Wood Dragon year (Jia Chen, 甲辰).
- Day officer
- Receive day (Shou, 收)
- Ruling spirit
- Bright Hall (Ming Tang, 明堂), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Rabbit years (兔: 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011, 2023). The sha (煞) lies east.
Good for
Ritual bathing (沐浴), Haircuts (理发), Cleaning the house (扫舍)
Avoid
Felling trees (伐木), Buying livestock (纳畜), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Moving into a new home (入宅), Building a stove (作灶), Building animal pens (造畜稠), Weddings (嫁娶), Burials (安葬), Making beams (作梁), Building a boat (造船), Hanging a door (安门)
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 68 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:08–14:08. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:08–02:08 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:08–04:08 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:08–06:08 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:08–08:08 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:08–10:08 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:08–12:08 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:08–14:08 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:08–16:08 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:08–18:08 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:08–20:08 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:08–22:08 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:08–00:08 | 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 Yin Earth (Ji, 己); 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.
Ji days: do not break a contract, or both parties lose. (己不破券二比并亡)
Rooster days: do not receive guests, or they get drunk and wild. (酉不会客醉坐颠狂)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): northeast. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): north. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): north.
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