Chinese almanac for Thursday 4 June 2026

4th lunar month, day 19. An Earth Rooster day (Ji You, 己酉), in a Water Snake month (Gui Si, 癸巳) and a Fire Horse year (Bing Wu, 丙午).

Day officer
Stable day (Ding, 定)
Ruling spirit
Vermilion Bird (Zhu Que, 朱雀), a black-path, unlucky day
Clashes
People born in Rabbit years (兔: 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011, 2023). The sha (煞) lies east.

Good for

Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮), Praying for children (求嗣), Installing machinery (安机械), Buying livestock (纳畜), Moving house (移徙), Moving into a new home (入宅), Making holy images (塑绘), Consecrating a statue (开光), Laying foundations (起基), Raising pillars (竖柱), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Building a stove (作灶), Hanging a door (安门), Setting up the home altar (安香), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Roofing (盖屋), Opening a grave for reburial (启钻), Burials (安葬)

Avoid

Breaking ground (动土), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Weddings (嫁娶)

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 71 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:11–14:11. The table is already converted. Why

HourClock timeLuckClashes
Rat (子)00:11–02:11LuckyHorse (马)
Ox (丑)02:11–04:11UnluckyGoat (羊)
Tiger (寅)04:11–06:11LuckyMonkey (猴)
Rabbit (卯)06:11–08:11LuckyRooster (鸡)
Dragon (辰)08:11–10:11UnluckyDog (狗)
Snake (巳)10:11–12:11UnluckyPig (猪)
Horse (午)12:11–14:11LuckyRat (鼠)
Goat (未)14:11–16:11LuckyOx (牛)
Monkey (申)16:11–18:11UnluckyTiger (虎)
Rooster (酉)18:11–20:11LuckyRabbit (兔)
Dog (戌)20:11–22:11UnluckyDragon (龙)
Pig (亥)22:11–00:11UnluckySnake (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 Earth (Ji, 己); this month, the Water Snake month (Gui Si, 癸巳), has Yin Water (Gui, 癸). 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.

Ji days: do not break a contract, or both parties lose. (己不破券二比并亡)

Rooster days: do not receive guests, or they get drunk and wild. (酉不会客醉坐颠狂)

God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): northeast. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): north. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): north.

Choosing a date