Chinese almanac for Friday 12 June 2026

4th lunar month, day 27. A Fire Snake day (Ding Si, 丁巳), in a Wood Horse month (Jia Wu, 甲午) and a Fire Horse year (Bing Wu, 丙午).

Day officer
Close day (Bi, 闭)
Ruling spirit
Black Tortoise (Xuan Wu, 玄武), a black-path, unlucky day
Clashes
People born in Pig years (猪: 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007, 2019). The sha (煞) lies east.

Good for

Building and repairs (修造), Breaking ground (动土), Laying foundations (起基), Hanging a door (安门), Setting up the bed (安床), Planting (栽种), Building embankments (筑堤), Mending walls (补垣), Building animal pens (造畜稠)

Avoid

Weddings (嫁娶), Digging a well (掘井), Moving into a new home (入宅), Moving house (移徙), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Travel (出行), Funerals (行丧), Burials (安葬), Consecrating a statue (开光), Haircuts (理发), Taking in new household members (进人口)

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 73 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:13–14:13. The table is already converted. Why

HourClock timeLuckClashes
Rat (子)00:13–02:13UnluckyHorse (马)
Ox (丑)02:13–04:13LuckyGoat (羊)
Tiger (寅)04:13–06:13UnluckyMonkey (猴)
Rabbit (卯)06:13–08:13UnluckyRooster (鸡)
Dragon (辰)08:13–10:13LuckyDog (狗)
Snake (巳)10:13–12:13UnluckyPig (猪)
Horse (午)12:13–14:13LuckyRat (鼠)
Goat (未)14:13–16:13LuckyOx (牛)
Monkey (申)16:13–18:13UnluckyTiger (虎)
Rooster (酉)18:13–20:13UnluckyRabbit (兔)
Dog (戌)20:13–22:13LuckyDragon (龙)
Pig (亥)22:13–00:13LuckySnake (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 Wood Horse month (Jia Wu, 甲午), has Yang Wood (Jia, 甲). 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)

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): south. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): southwest. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southeast.

Choosing a date