Chinese almanac for Saturday 21 June 2025
5th lunar month, day 26. A Metal Rooster day (Xin You, 辛酉), in a Water Horse month (Ren Wu, 壬午) and a Wood Snake year (Yi Si, 乙巳).
- Day officer
- Balance day (Ping, 平)
- Ruling spirit
- Bright Hall (Ming Tang, 明堂), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Rabbit years (兔: 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011, 2023). The sha (煞) lies east.
- Solar term
- Summer Solstice (Xia Zhi, 夏至), at 10:42 Malaysia time
Good for
Weddings (嫁娶), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Haircuts (理发), Building a stove (作灶), Plastering walls (修饰垣墙), Levelling roads (平治道涂), Trimming nails (整手足甲), Ritual bathing (沐浴), Coming-of-age rites (冠笄)
Avoid
Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Travel (出行), 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 75 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:15–14:15. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:15–02:15 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:15–04:15 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:15–06:15 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:15–08:15 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:15–10:15 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:15–12:15 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:15–14:15 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:15–16:15 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:15–18:15 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:15–20:15 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:15–22:15 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:15–00:15 | 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 Yin Metal (Xin, 辛); this month, the Water Horse month (Ren Wu, 壬午), has Yang Water (Ren, 壬). 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)
Rooster days: do not receive guests, or they get drunk and wild. (酉不会客醉坐颠狂)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): southwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): east. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): northwest.
Choosing a date