Chinese almanac for Saturday 30 August 2025
7th lunar month, day 8. A Metal Goat day (Xin Wei, 辛未), in a Wood Monkey month (Jia Shen, 甲申) and a Wood Snake year (Yi Si, 乙巳).
- Day officer
- Close day (Bi, 闭)
- Ruling spirit
- Jade Hall (Yu Tang, 玉堂), 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), Travel (出行), Making beams (作梁), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Demolition (拆卸), Building and repairs (修造), Breaking ground (动土), Laying foundations (起基), Setting up the bed (安床), Mending walls (补垣), Sealing holes (塞穴), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Burials (安葬), Moving a coffin (移柩), Building animal pens (造畜稠)
Avoid
Weddings (嫁娶), Moving into a new home (入宅), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮), Consecrating a statue (开光), Acupuncture (针灸), Digging a well (掘井)
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 73 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:13–14:13. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:13–02:13 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:13–04:13 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:13–06:13 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:13–08:13 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:13–10:13 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:13–12:13 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:13–14:13 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:13–16:13 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:13–18:13 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:13–20:13 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:13–22:13 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:13–00:13 | 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 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.
Xin days: do not make sauce, or the master will never taste it. (辛不合酱主人不尝)
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): southwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): east. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): northwest.
Choosing a date