Chinese almanac for Monday 30 December 2024
11th lunar month, day 30. An Earth Dragon day (Wu Chen, 戊辰), 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.
Good for
Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Consecrating a statue (开光), Setting up the home altar (安香), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Travel (出行), Visiting family and friends (会亲友), Installing machinery (安机械), Building and repairs (修造), Breaking ground (动土), Raising pillars (竖柱), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Roofing (盖屋), Laying foundations (起基), Setting pillar bases (定磉), Setting up the bed (安床), Hanging a door (安门), Demolition (拆卸), Moving house (移徙), Building a bridge (造桥), Building a boat (造船), Burials (安葬), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓)
Avoid
Opening a business (开市), Building a temple (造庙), Buying property (置产), Digging a well (掘井)
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 77 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:17–14:17. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:17–02:17 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:17–04:17 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:17–06:17 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:17–08:17 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:17–10:17 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:17–12:17 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:17–14:17 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:17–16:17 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:17–18:17 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:17–20:17 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:17–22:17 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:17–00:17 | 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 Earth (Wu, 戊); 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.
Wu days: do not take on land, or the owner has no luck with it. (戊不受田田主不祥)
Dragon days: do not weep, or another death follows. (辰不哭泣必主重丧)
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