Chinese almanac for Wednesday 8 October 2025
8th lunar month, day 17. A Metal Dog day (Geng Xu, 庚戌), in a Fire Dog month (Bing Xu, 丙戌) and a Wood Snake year (Yi Si, 乙巳).
- Day officer
- Establish day (Jian, 建)
- Ruling spirit
- White Tiger (Bai Hu, 白虎), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Dragon years (龙: 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012, 2024). The sha (煞) lies north.
- Solar term
- Cold Dew (Han Lu, 寒露), at 08:41 Malaysia time
Good for
Offerings and worship (祭祀), Travel (出行), Cutting cloth for clothes (裁衣), Coming-of-age rites (冠笄), Visiting family and friends (会亲友), Building animal pens (造畜稠), Weddings (嫁娶), Raising pillars (竖柱), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Moving house (移徙), Receiving money (纳财), Buying livestock (纳畜)
Avoid
Breaking ground (动土), Felling trees (伐木), Making beams (作梁), Funerals (行丧), Burials (安葬), Preparing one’s own grave (开生坟)
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 60 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:00–14:00. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:00–02:00 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:00–04:00 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:00–06:00 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:00–08:00 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:00–10:00 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:00–12:00 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:00–14:00 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:00–16:00 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:00–18:00 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:00–20:00 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:00–22:00 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:00–00:00 | 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 Metal (Geng, 庚); this month, the Fire Dog month (Bing Xu, 丙戌), has Yang Fire (Bing, 丙). 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.
Geng days: do not string a loom, or it stands idle. (庚不经络织机虚张)
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): northwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): east. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southwest.
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