Chinese almanac for Thursday 12 December 2024
11th lunar month, day 12. A Metal Dog day (Geng Xu, 庚戌), in a Fire Rat month (Bing Zi, 丙子) and a Wood Dragon year (Jia Chen, 甲辰).
- Day officer
- Open day (Kai, 开)
- Ruling spirit
- Heavenly Punishment (Tian Xing, 天刑), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Dragon years (龙: 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012, 2024). The sha (煞) lies north.
Good for
Offerings and worship (祭祀), Consecrating a statue (开光), Praying for blessings (祈福), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Making beams (作梁), Breaking ground (动土), Setting up the bed (安床), Digging a well (掘井), Planting (栽种), Buying livestock (纳畜), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Moving a coffin (移柩)
Avoid
Weddings (嫁娶), Travel (出行), Taking up a new post (赴任), Roofing (盖屋), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Moving into a new home (入宅), Moving house (移徙), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Taking in new household members (进人口), Burials (安葬)
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 | Unlucky | 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 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:08–10:08 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:08–12:08 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:08–14:08 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:08–16:08 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:08–18:08 | Lucky | 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 | 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 Metal (Geng, 庚); 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.
Geng days: do not string a loom, or it stands idle. (庚不经络织机虚张)
Dog days: do not eat dog, or strange things climb into bed. (戌不吃犬作怪上床)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): northwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): east. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southwest.
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