Chinese almanac for Tuesday 13 January 2026
11th lunar month, day 25. A Fire Pig day (Ding Hai, 丁亥), in an Earth Ox month (Ji Chou, 己丑) and a Wood Snake year (Yi Si, 乙巳).
- Day officer
- Open day (Kai, 开)
- Ruling spirit
- Bright Hall (Ming Tang, 明堂), 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
Opening a business (开市), Trading (交易), Signing contracts (立券), Receiving money (纳财), Buying livestock (纳畜), Building animal pens (造畜稠), Moving into a new home (入宅), Moving house (移徙), Setting up the bed (安床), Consecrating a statue (开光), Praying for blessings (祈福), Praying for children (求嗣), Breaking ground (动土)
Avoid
Weddings (嫁娶), Planting (栽种), Burials (安葬), Haircuts (理发), Building a temple (造庙), Building a stove (作灶), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Funerals (行丧), Building a bridge (造桥)
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 82 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:22–14:22. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:22–02:22 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:22–04:22 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:22–06:22 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:22–08:22 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:22–10:22 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:22–12:22 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:22–14:22 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:22–16:22 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:22–18:22 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:22–20:22 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:22–22:22 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:22–00:22 | 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 Ox month (Ji Chou, 己丑), has Yin Earth (Ji, 己). 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)
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): south. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): southwest. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southeast.
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