Chinese almanac for Saturday 15 March 2025
2nd lunar month, day 16. A Water Goat day (Gui Wei, 癸未), in an Earth Rabbit month (Ji Mao, 己卯) and a Wood Snake year (Yi Si, 乙巳).
- Day officer
- Stable day (Ding, 定)
- Ruling spirit
- Heavenly Virtue (Tian De, 天德), 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
Offerings and worship (祭祀), Visiting family and friends (会亲友), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Cutting cloth for clothes (裁衣), Hanging the bridal curtains (合帐), Installing machinery (安机械), Demolition (拆卸), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Hanging a door (安门), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Taking off mourning clothes (除服), Putting on mourning clothes (成服), Moving a coffin (移柩), Opening a grave for reburial (启钻), Burials (安葬), Setting up a tombstone (立碑), Consecrating a statue (开光), Making holy images (塑绘), Starting school (入学), Travel (出行), Laying foundations (起基), Setting pillar bases (定磉), Releasing water (放水), Moving house (移徙), Moving into a new home (入宅), Raising pillars (竖柱), Signing contracts (立券), Setting up a loom (经络)
Avoid
Felling trees (伐木), Making beams (作梁)
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 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:23–06:23 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:23–08:23 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:23–10:23 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:23–12:23 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:23–14:23 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:23–16:23 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:23–18:23 | Lucky | 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 Water (Gui, 癸); 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.
Gui days: do not go to law, or your case is weak and your opponent strong. (癸不词讼理弱敌强)
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): southeast. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): south. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): northeast.
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