Chinese almanac for Tuesday 11 November 2025

9th lunar month, day 22. A Wood Monkey day (Jia Shen, 甲申), in a Fire Pig month (Ding Hai, 丁亥) and a Wood Snake year (Yi Si, 乙巳).

Day officer
Receive day (Shou, 收)
Ruling spirit
Heavenly Punishment (Tian Xing, 天刑), a black-path, unlucky day
Clashes
People born in Tiger years (虎: 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010, 2022). The sha (煞) lies south.

Good for

Offerings and worship (祭祀), Ritual bathing (沐浴), Making nets (结网), Moving a coffin (移柩), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Taking off mourning clothes (除服), Putting on mourning clothes (成服)

Avoid

Setting up the bed (安床), Opening a business (开市), Trading (交易), Sending out goods (出货财), Burials (安葬), Repairing a grave (修坟), Weddings (嫁娶), Building a stove (作灶)

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 58 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 11:58–13:58. The table is already converted. Why

HourClock timeLuckClashes
Rat (子)23:58–01:58LuckyHorse (马)
Ox (丑)01:58–03:58LuckyGoat (羊)
Tiger (寅)03:58–05:58UnluckyMonkey (猴)
Rabbit (卯)05:58–07:58UnluckyRooster (鸡)
Dragon (辰)07:58–09:58LuckyDog (狗)
Snake (巳)09:58–11:58LuckyPig (猪)
Horse (午)11:58–13:58UnluckyRat (鼠)
Goat (未)13:58–15:58LuckyOx (牛)
Monkey (申)15:58–17:58UnluckyTiger (虎)
Rooster (酉)17:58–19:58UnluckyRabbit (兔)
Dog (戌)19:58–21:58LuckyDragon (龙)
Pig (亥)21:58–23:58UnluckySnake (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 Wood (Jia, 甲); this month, the Fire Pig month (Ding Hai, 丁亥), has Yin Fire (Ding, 丁). 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.

Jia days: do not open the storehouse, or goods and money drain away. (甲不开仓财物耗散)

Monkey days: do not set up a bed, or spirits enter the room. (申不安床鬼祟入房)

God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): northeast. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): northeast. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): north.

Choosing a date