Chinese almanac for Saturday 11 October 2025
8th lunar month, day 20. A Water Ox day (Gui Chou, 癸丑), in a Fire Dog month (Bing Xu, 丙戌) and a Wood Snake year (Yi Si, 乙巳).
- Day officer
- Balance day (Ping, 平)
- Ruling spirit
- Black Tortoise (Xuan Wu, 玄武), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Goat years (羊: 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003, 2015). The sha (煞) lies east.
Good for
Building animal pens (造畜稠), Levelling roads (平治道涂), Nothing else (馀事勿取)
Avoid
Everything else (诸事不宜)
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 59 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 11:59–13:59. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 23:59–01:59 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 01:59–03:59 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 03:59–05:59 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 05:59–07:59 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 07:59–09:59 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 09:59–11:59 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 11:59–13:59 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 13:59–15:59 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 15:59–17:59 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 17:59–19:59 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 19:59–21:59 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 21:59–23:59 | 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 Water (Gui, 癸); 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.
Gui days: do not go to law, or your case is weak and your opponent strong. (癸不词讼理弱敌强)
Ox days: do not put on the cap of office, or you will not return home. (丑不冠带主不还乡)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): southeast. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): south. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): northeast.
Choosing a date