Chinese almanac for Saturday 3 January 2026
11th lunar month, day 15. A Fire Ox day (Ding Chou, 丁丑), in an Earth Rat month (Wu Zi, 戊子) and a Wood Snake year (Yi Si, 乙巳).
- Day officer
- Remove day (Chu, 除)
- Ruling spirit
- Heavenly Virtue (Tian De, 天德), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Goat years (羊: 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003, 2015). The sha (煞) lies east.
Good for
Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Making carts and tools (造车器), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Travel (出行), Setting up the home altar (安香), Building and repairs (修造), Breaking ground (动土), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Opening a business (开市), Trading (交易), Signing contracts (立券), Moving house (移徙), Moving into a new home (入宅), Visiting family and friends (会亲友), Installing machinery (安机械), Planting (栽种), Buying livestock (纳畜), Roofing (盖屋), Laying foundations (起基), Setting up the bed (安床), Building animal pens (造畜稠)
Avoid
Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Burials (安葬), Funerals (行丧), 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 78 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:18–14:18. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:18–02:18 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:18–04:18 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:18–06:18 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:18–08:18 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:18–10:18 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:18–12:18 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:18–14:18 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:18–16:18 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:18–18:18 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:18–20:18 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:18–22:18 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:18–00:18 | 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 Fire (Ding, 丁); this month, the Earth Rat month (Wu Zi, 戊子), has Yang Earth (Wu, 戊). 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.
Ding days: do not shave the head, or it breaks out in sores. (丁不剃头头必生疮)
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): south. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): southwest. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southeast.
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