Chinese almanac for Saturday 17 January 2026
11th lunar month, day 29. A Metal Rabbit day (Xin Mao, 辛卯), in an Earth Ox month (Ji Chou, 己丑) and a Wood Snake year (Yi Si, 乙巳).
- Day officer
- Full day (Man, 满)
- Ruling spirit
- Heavenly Virtue (Tian De, 天德), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Rooster years (鸡: 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005, 2017). The sha (煞) lies west.
Good for
Weddings (嫁娶), Travel (出行), Haircuts (理发), Setting up the bed (安床), Opening a grave for reburial (启钻), Burials (安葬), Repairing a grave (修坟), Opening a business (开市), Trading (交易), Signing contracts (立券), Receiving money (纳财), Digging a pond (开池), Raising livestock (牧养)
Avoid
Digging a well (掘井), Praying for blessings (祈福), Thanking the earth after building (谢土), Breaking ground (动土), Moving into a new home (入宅), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Building and repairs (修造), 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 83 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:23–14:23. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:23–02:23 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:23–04:23 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:23–06:23 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:23–08:23 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:23–10:23 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:23–12:23 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:23–14:23 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:23–16:23 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:23–18:23 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:23–20:23 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:23–22:23 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:23–00:23 | Unlucky | 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 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.
Xin days: do not make sauce, or the master will never taste it. (辛不合酱主人不尝)
Rabbit days: do not dig a well, or the water will not be sweet. (卯不穿井水泉不香)
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