Chinese almanac for Thursday 13 March 2025
2nd lunar month, day 14. A Metal Snake day (Xin Si, 辛巳), in an Earth Rabbit month (Ji Mao, 己卯) and a Wood Snake year (Yi Si, 乙巳).
- Day officer
- Full day (Man, 满)
- Ruling spirit
- Vermilion Bird (Zhu Que, 朱雀), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Pig years (猪: 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007, 2019). The sha (煞) lies east.
Good for
Consecrating a statue (开光), Making holy images (塑绘), Praying for children (求嗣), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Cutting cloth for clothes (裁衣), Hanging the bridal curtains (合帐), Coming-of-age rites (冠笄), Installing machinery (安机械), Making beams (作梁), Cutting holes for pillars (开柱眼), Hanging a door (安门), Setting up the bed (安床), Building a storehouse (造仓), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Visiting family and friends (会亲友), Praying for blessings (祈福), Setting up a loom (经络), Receiving money (纳财), Opening a business (开市), Signing contracts (立券), Trading (交易), Starting school (入学), Haircuts (理发), Setting up trestles (架马)
Avoid
Travel (出行), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮), Burials (安葬), Weddings (嫁娶)
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 83 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:23–14:23. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:23–02:23 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:23–04:23 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:23–06:23 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:23–08:23 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:23–10:23 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:23–12:23 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:23–14:23 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:23–16:23 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:23–18:23 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:23–20:23 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:23–22:23 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:23–00:23 | 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 Metal (Xin, 辛); this month, the Earth Rabbit month (Ji Mao, 己卯), has Yin Earth (Ji, 己). 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.
Xin days: do not make sauce, or the master will never taste it. (辛不合酱主人不尝)
Snake days: do not travel far, or your goods go missing. (巳不远行财物伏藏)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): southwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): east. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): northwest.
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