Chinese almanac for Wednesday 12 August 2026
6th lunar month, day 30. An Earth Horse day (Wu Wu, 戊午), in a Fire Monkey month (Bing Shen, 丙申) and a Fire Horse year (Bing Wu, 丙午).
- Day officer
- Open day (Kai, 开)
- Ruling spirit
- White Tiger (Bai Hu, 白虎), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Rat years (鼠: 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020). The sha (煞) lies north.
Good for
Weddings (嫁娶), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Praying for children (求嗣), Consecrating a statue (开光), Travel (出行), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Setting up the bed (安床), Planting (栽种), Moving a coffin (移柩), Taking in new household members (进人口), Visiting family and friends (会亲友), Taking off mourning clothes (除服), Putting on mourning clothes (成服)
Avoid
Roofing (盖屋), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Burials (安葬), Felling trees (伐木), Moving into a new home (入宅), Moving house (移徙), Buying property (置产), Buying livestock (纳畜)
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 78 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:18–14:18. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:18–02:18 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:18–04:18 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:18–06:18 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:18–08:18 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:18–10:18 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:18–12:18 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:18–14:18 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:18–16:18 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:18–18:18 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:18–20:18 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:18–22:18 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:18–00:18 | 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 Earth (Wu, 戊); this month, the Fire Monkey month (Bing Shen, 丙申), has Yang Fire (Bing, 丙). 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.
Wu days: do not take on land, or the owner has no luck with it. (戊不受田田主不祥)
Horse days: do not thatch a roof, or it must be done again. (午不苫盖屋主更张)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): southeast. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): north. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): northeast.
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