Chinese almanac for Wednesday 11 March 2026
1st lunar month, day 23. A Wood Monkey day (Jia Shen, 甲申), in a Metal Rabbit month (Xin Mao, 辛卯) and a Fire Horse year (Bing Wu, 丙午).
- Day officer
- Initiate day (Zhi, 执)
- Ruling spirit
- White Tiger (Bai Hu, 白虎), 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), Consecrating a statue (开光), Making holy images (塑绘), Praying for blessings (祈福), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮), Cutting cloth for clothes (裁衣), Hanging the bridal curtains (合帐), Coming-of-age rites (冠笄), Weddings (嫁娶), Demolition (拆卸), Breaking ground (动土), Moving house (移徙), Moving into a new home (入宅), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Moving a coffin (移柩), Burials (安葬), Thanking the earth after building (谢土), Praying for children (求嗣), Starting school (入学), Haircuts (理发), Felling trees (伐木), Setting up trestles (架马), Making beams (作梁), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Building and repairs (修造), Laying foundations (起基), Setting pillar bases (定磉), Releasing water (放水), Taking up a new post (赴任)
Avoid
Hanging a door (安门)
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 84 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:24–14:24. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:24–02:24 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:24–04:24 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:24–06:24 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:24–08:24 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:24–10:24 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:24–12:24 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:24–14:24 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:24–16:24 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:24–18:24 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:24–20:24 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:24–22:24 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:24–00:24 | 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 Yang Wood (Jia, 甲); this month, the Metal Rabbit month (Xin Mao, 辛卯), has Yin Metal (Xin, 辛). 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.
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