Chinese almanac for Thursday 1 October 2026
8th lunar month, day 21. An Earth Monkey day (Wu Shen, 戊申), in a Fire Rooster month (Ding You, 丁酉) and a Fire Horse year (Bing Wu, 丙午).
- Day officer
- Close day (Bi, 闭)
- 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
Coming-of-age rites (冠笄), Ritual bathing (沐浴), Travel (出行), Building and repairs (修造), Breaking ground (动土), Moving house (移徙), Moving into a new home (入宅), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Burials (安葬)
Avoid
Weddings (嫁娶), Opening a business (开市), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Repairing a grave (修坟)
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 62 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:02–14:02. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:02–02:02 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:02–04:02 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:02–06:02 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:02–08:02 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:02–10:02 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:02–12:02 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:02–14:02 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:02–16:02 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:02–18:02 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:02–20:02 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:02–22:02 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:02–00:02 | 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 Rooster month (Ding You, 丁酉), has Yin Fire (Ding, 丁). 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)
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): southeast. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): north. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): northeast.
Choosing a date