Chinese almanac for Saturday 19 December 2026
11th lunar month, day 11. A Fire Rabbit day (Ding Mao, 丁卯), in a Metal Rat month (Geng Zi, 庚子) and a Fire Horse year (Bing Wu, 丙午).
- Day officer
- Balance day (Ping, 平)
- Ruling spirit
- Jade Hall (Yu Tang, 玉堂), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Rooster years (鸡: 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005, 2017). The sha (煞) lies west.
Good for
Offerings and worship (祭祀), Levelling roads (平治道涂), Taking off mourning clothes (除服), Putting on mourning clothes (成服), Burials (安葬), Nothing else (馀事勿取)
Avoid
Weddings (嫁娶), Moving into a new home (入宅), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Digging a well (掘井)
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 71 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:11–14:11. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:11–02:11 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:11–04:11 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:11–06:11 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:11–08:11 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:11–10:11 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:11–12:11 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:11–14:11 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:11–16:11 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:11–18:11 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:11–20:11 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:11–22:11 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:11–00:11 | 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 Fire (Ding, 丁); this month, the Metal Rat month (Geng Zi, 庚子), has Yang Metal (Geng, 庚). 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)
Rabbit days: do not dig a well, or the water will not be sweet. (卯不穿井水泉不香)
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