Chinese almanac for Thursday 29 October 2026
9th lunar month, day 20. A Fire Rat day (Bing Zi, 丙子), in an Earth Dog month (Wu Xu, 戊戌) and a Fire Horse year (Bing Wu, 丙午).
- Day officer
- Full day (Man, 满)
- Ruling spirit
- Heavenly Prison (Tian Lao, 天牢), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Horse years (马: 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014, 2026). The sha (煞) lies south.
Good for
Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Opening a business (开市), Trading (交易), Signing contracts (立券), Visiting family and friends (会亲友), Buying livestock (纳畜), Raising livestock (牧养), Exchanging names and birth dates (问名), Moving house (移徙), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Building a toilet (开厕), Starting school (入学), Laying foundations (起基), Setting up the bed (安床), Opening the storehouse (开仓), Sending out goods (出货财), Burials (安葬), Opening a grave for reburial (启钻), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Taking off mourning clothes (除服), Putting on mourning clothes (成服)
Avoid
Moving into a new home (入宅), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Thanking the earth after building (谢土)
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 57 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 11:57–13:57. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 23:57–01:57 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 01:57–03:57 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 03:57–05:57 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 05:57–07:57 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 07:57–09:57 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 09:57–11:57 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 11:57–13:57 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 13:57–15:57 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 15:57–17:57 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 17:57–19:57 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 19:57–21:57 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 21:57–23:57 | 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 Fire (Bing, 丙); this month, the Earth Dog month (Wu Xu, 戊戌), has Yang Earth (Wu, 戊). 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.
Bing days: do not repair the stove, or disaster follows. (丙不修灶必见灾殃)
Rat days: do not consult a diviner, or you bring trouble on yourself. (子不问卜自惹祸殃)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): southwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): southwest. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): northwest.
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