Chinese almanac for Tuesday 1 December 2026
10th lunar month, day 23. An Earth Rooster day (Ji You, 己酉), in an Earth Pig month (Ji Hai, 己亥) and a Fire Horse year (Bing Wu, 丙午).
- Day officer
- Open day (Kai, 开)
- 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
Opening a business (开市), Receiving money (纳财), Travel (出行), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Praying for children (求嗣), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮), Exchanging names and birth dates (问名), Starting school (入学), Laying foundations (起基), Setting pillar bases (定磉), Buying property (置产), Digging channels (开渠), Digging a well (掘井), Demolition (拆卸), Planting (栽种), Buying livestock (纳畜), Raising livestock (牧养), Breaking ground (动土), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Opening a grave for reburial (启钻)
Avoid
Moving house (移徙), Moving into a new home (入宅), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Burials (安葬)
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 63 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:03–14:03. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:03–02:03 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:03–04:03 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:03–06:03 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:03–08:03 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:03–10:03 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:03–12:03 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:03–14:03 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:03–16:03 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:03–18:03 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:03–20:03 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:03–22:03 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:03–00:03 | 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 Yin Earth (Ji, 己); this month, the Earth Pig month (Ji Hai, 己亥), has Yin Earth (Ji, 己). 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