Chinese almanac for Friday 7 February 2025
1st lunar month, day 10. A Fire Goat day (Ding Wei, 丁未), in an Earth Tiger month (Wu Yin, 戊寅) and a Wood Snake year (Yi Si, 乙巳).
- Day officer
- Initiate day (Zhi, 执)
- Ruling spirit
- Jade Hall (Yu Tang, 玉堂), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Ox years (牛: 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009, 2021). The sha (煞) lies west.
Good for
Weddings (嫁娶), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Travel (出行), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Demolition (拆卸), Breaking ground (动土), Moving into a new home (入宅), Moving house (移徙), Setting up the bed (安床), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Planting (栽种), Buying livestock (纳畜), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Opening a grave for reburial (启钻), Burials (安葬)
Avoid
Opening a business (开市), Signing contracts (立券), Haircuts (理发), Building a stove (作灶)
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 88 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:28–14:28. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:28–02:28 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:28–04:28 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:28–06:28 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:28–08:28 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:28–10:28 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:28–12:28 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:28–14:28 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:28–16:28 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:28–18:28 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:28–20:28 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:28–22:28 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:28–00:28 | 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 Yin Fire (Ding, 丁); this month, the Earth Tiger month (Wu Yin, 戊寅), has Yang Earth (Wu, 戊). 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.
Ding days: do not shave the head, or it breaks out in sores. (丁不剃头头必生疮)
Goat days: do not take medicine, or poison enters the gut. (未不服药毒气入肠)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): south. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): southwest. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southeast.
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