Chinese almanac for Thursday 9 October 2025
8th lunar month, day 18. A Metal Pig day (Xin Hai, 辛亥), in a Fire Dog month (Bing Xu, 丙戌) and a Wood Snake year (Yi Si, 乙巳).
- Day officer
- Remove day (Chu, 除)
- Ruling spirit
- Jade Hall (Yu Tang, 玉堂), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Snake years (蛇: 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013, 2025). The sha (煞) lies west.
Good for
Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Praying for children (求嗣), Consecrating a statue (开光), Travel (出行), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Moving house (移徙), Felling trees (伐木), Setting up the bed (安床), Buying livestock (纳畜), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Demolition (拆卸)
Avoid
Burials (安葬), Repairing a grave (修坟), Building a stove (作灶), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Building a temple (造庙), Breaking ground (动土), Weddings (嫁娶), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采)
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 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:00–06:00 | Unlucky | 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 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:00–14:00 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:00–16:00 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:00–18:00 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:00–20:00 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:00–22:00 | Lucky | 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 Yin Metal (Xin, 辛); 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.
Xin days: do not make sauce, or the master will never taste it. (辛不合酱主人不尝)
Pig days: do not marry, or it goes badly for the groom. (亥不嫁娶不利新郎)
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