Chinese almanac for Thursday 29 May 2025
5th lunar month, day 3. An Earth Dog day (Wu Xu, 戊戌), in a Metal Snake month (Xin Si, 辛巳) and a Wood Snake year (Yi Si, 乙巳).
- Day officer
- Initiate day (Zhi, 执)
- Ruling spirit
- Golden Casket (Jin Kui, 金匮), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Dragon years (龙: 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012, 2024). The sha (煞) lies north.
Good for
Weddings (嫁娶), 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), Consecrating a statue (开光), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Travel (出行), Demolition (拆卸), Breaking ground (动土), Building and repairs (修造), Taking in new household members (进人口), Moving into a new home (入宅), Moving house (移徙), Setting up the bed (安床), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Hanging a signboard (挂匾), Planting (栽种), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Thanking the earth after building (谢土), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Moving a coffin (移柩), Burials (安葬)
Avoid
Opening a business (开市), Signing contracts (立券), Building a boat (造船), Making a coffin in advance (合寿木)
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 70 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:10–14:10. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:10–02:10 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:10–04:10 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:10–06:10 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:10–08:10 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:10–10:10 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:10–12:10 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:10–14:10 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:10–16:10 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:10–18:10 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:10–20:10 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:10–22:10 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:10–00:10 | 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 Yang Earth (Wu, 戊); this month, the Metal Snake month (Xin Si, 辛巳), has Yin Metal (Xin, 辛). 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)
Dog days: do not eat dog, or strange things climb into bed. (戌不吃犬作怪上床)
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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