Chinese almanac for Thursday 9 January 2025
12th lunar month, day 10. An Earth Tiger day (Wu Yin, 戊寅), in a Fire Ox month (Ding Chou, 丁丑) and a Wood Dragon year (Jia Chen, 甲辰).
- Day officer
- Remove day (Chu, 除)
- Ruling spirit
- Golden Casket (Jin Kui, 金匮), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Monkey years (猴: 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016). The sha (煞) lies north.
Good for
Opening a business (开市), Trading (交易), Signing contracts (立券), Hanging a signboard (挂匾), Consecrating a statue (开光), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Felling trees (伐木), Making beams (作梁), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Moving into a new home (入宅), Moving house (移徙), Setting up the bed (安床), Demolition (拆卸), Breaking ground (动土), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Planting (栽种), Buying livestock (纳畜), Burials (安葬)
Avoid
Weddings (嫁娶), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Travel (出行), Buying property (置产)
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 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:20–10:20 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:20–12:20 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:20–14:20 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:20–16:20 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:20–18:20 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:20–20:20 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:20–22:20 | Lucky | 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 Earth (Wu, 戊); 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.
Wu days: do not take on land, or the owner has no luck with it. (戊不受田田主不祥)
Tiger days: do not make offerings, or the spirits will not accept them. (寅不祭祀神鬼不尝)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): southeast. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): north. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): northeast.
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