Chinese almanac for Saturday 16 August 2025
Leap 6th lunar month, day 23. A Fire Snake day (Ding Si, 丁巳), in a Wood Monkey month (Jia Shen, 甲申) and a Wood Snake year (Yi Si, 乙巳).
- Day officer
- Receive day (Shou, 收)
- Ruling spirit
- Heavenly Virtue (Tian De, 天德), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Pig years (猪: 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007, 2019). The sha (煞) lies east.
Good for
Offerings and worship (祭祀), Consecrating a statue (开光), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Taking in new household members (进人口), Trading (交易), Signing contracts (立券), Receiving money (纳财), Buying livestock (纳畜)
Avoid
Breaking ground (动土), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Weddings (嫁娶), Haircuts (理发), Travel (出行), Moving into a new home (入宅), Moving house (移徙), Setting up a separate household (分居), Setting up the home altar (安香), Moving the altar out before works (出火)
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 77 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:17–14:17. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:17–02:17 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:17–04:17 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:17–06:17 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:17–08:17 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:17–10:17 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:17–12:17 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:17–14:17 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:17–16:17 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:17–18:17 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:17–20:17 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:17–22:17 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:17–00:17 | 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 Fire (Ding, 丁); this month, the Wood Monkey month (Jia Shen, 甲申), has Yang Wood (Jia, 甲). 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.
Ding days: do not shave the head, or it breaks out in sores. (丁不剃头头必生疮)
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): south. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): southwest. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southeast.
Choosing a date