Chinese almanac for Tuesday 18 February 2025
1st lunar month, day 21. An Earth Horse day (Wu Wu, 戊午), in an Earth Tiger month (Wu Yin, 戊寅) and a Wood Snake year (Yi Si, 乙巳).
- Day officer
- Stable day (Ding, 定)
- Ruling spirit
- White Tiger (Bai Hu, 白虎), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Rat years (鼠: 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020). The sha (煞) lies north.
- Solar term
- Rain Water (Yu Shui, 雨水), at 18:06 Malaysia time
Good for
Making carts and tools (造车器), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Praying for children (求嗣), Moving house (移徙), Travel (出行), Opening a business (开市), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Moving into a new home (入宅), Signing contracts (立券), Trading (交易), Hanging a door (安门), Setting up the bed (安床), Burials (安葬), Thanking the earth after building (谢土)
Avoid
Consecrating a statue (开光), Roofing (盖屋), Breaking ground (动土), Building a stove (作灶), Planting (栽种)
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 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:28–04:28 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:28–06:28 | Unlucky | 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 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:28–14:28 | Lucky | 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 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:28–22:28 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:28–00:28 | 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 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.
Wu days: do not take on land, or the owner has no luck with it. (戊不受田田主不祥)
Horse days: do not thatch a roof, or it must be done again. (午不苫盖屋主更张)
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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