Chinese almanac for Tuesday 7 January 2025
12th lunar month, day 8. A Fire Rat day (Bing Zi, 丙子), in a Fire Ox month (Ding Chou, 丁丑) and a Wood Dragon year (Jia Chen, 甲辰).
- Day officer
- Close day (Bi, 闭)
- Ruling spirit
- Heavenly Punishment (Tian Xing, 天刑), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Horse years (马: 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014, 2026). The sha (煞) lies south.
Good for
Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮), Ritual bathing (沐浴), Setting up the bed (安床), Installing machinery (安机械), Making carts and tools (造车器), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Moving a coffin (移柩), Opening a grave for reburial (启钻), Burials (安葬), Setting up a tombstone (立碑), Hanging the bridal curtains (合帐), Setting up a loom (经络), Trading (交易)
Avoid
Building a stove (作灶), Digging a well (掘井), Weddings (嫁娶), Moving into a new home (入宅)
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 80 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:20–14:20. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:20–02:20 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:20–04:20 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:20–06:20 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:20–08:20 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:20–10:20 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:20–12:20 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:20–14:20 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:20–16:20 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:20–18:20 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:20–20:20 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:20–22:20 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:20–00:20 | 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 Yang Fire (Bing, 丙); this month, the Fire Ox month (Ding Chou, 丁丑), has Yin Fire (Ding, 丁). 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.
Bing days: do not repair the stove, or disaster follows. (丙不修灶必见灾殃)
Rat days: do not consult a diviner, or you bring trouble on yourself. (子不问卜自惹祸殃)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): southwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): southwest. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): northwest.
Choosing a date