Chinese almanac for Friday 20 March 2026
2nd lunar month, day 2. A Water Snake day (Gui Si, 癸巳), in a Metal Rabbit month (Xin Mao, 辛卯) and a Fire Horse year (Bing Wu, 丙午).
- Day officer
- Full day (Man, 满)
- Ruling spirit
- Vermilion Bird (Zhu Que, 朱雀), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Pig years (猪: 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007, 2019). The sha (煞) lies east.
- Solar term
- Spring Equinox (Chun Fen, 春分), at 22:45 Malaysia time
Good for
Receiving money (纳财), Opening a business (开市), Signing contracts (立券), Trading (交易), Consecrating a statue (开光), Setting up the bed (安床), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Roofing (盖屋), Building and repairs (修造), Laying foundations (起基)
Avoid
Breaking ground (动土), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Burials (安葬), Funerals (行丧), Taking up a new post (赴任), Travel (出行), Weddings (嫁娶), Moving into a new home (入宅), Moving house (移徙), Thanking the earth after building (谢土), Lawsuits (词讼)
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 81 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:21–14:21. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:21–02:21 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:21–04:21 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:21–06:21 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:21–08:21 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:21–10:21 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:21–12:21 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:21–14:21 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:21–16:21 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:21–18:21 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:21–20:21 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:21–22:21 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:21–00:21 | 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 Water (Gui, 癸); 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.
Gui days: do not go to law, or your case is weak and your opponent strong. (癸不词讼理弱敌强)
Snake days: do not travel far, or your goods go missing. (巳不远行财物伏藏)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): southeast. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): south. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): northeast.
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