Chinese almanac for Wednesday 23 December 2026
11th lunar month, day 15. A Metal Goat day (Xin Wei, 辛未), in a Metal Rat month (Geng Zi, 庚子) and a Fire Horse year (Bing Wu, 丙午).
- Day officer
- Danger day (Wei, 危)
- Ruling spirit
- Hook Array (Gou Chen, 勾陈), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Ox years (牛: 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009, 2021). The sha (煞) lies west.
Good for
Setting up the bed (安床), Setting up trestles (架马), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Making holy images (塑绘), Consecrating a statue (开光), Travel (出行), Haircuts (理发), Felling trees (伐木), Making beams (作梁), Cutting holes for pillars (开柱眼), Building a toilet (开厕), Hunting (畋猎), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Taking off mourning clothes (除服), Putting on mourning clothes (成服), Moving a coffin (移柩), Opening a grave for reburial (启钻), Repairing a grave (修坟), Setting up a tombstone (立碑)
Avoid
Building a stove (作灶), Hanging a door (安门), Building a bridge (造桥), Opening a business (开市), 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 73 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:13–14:13. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:13–02:13 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:13–04:13 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:13–06:13 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:13–08:13 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:13–10:13 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:13–12:13 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:13–14:13 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:13–16:13 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:13–18:13 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:13–20:13 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:13–22:13 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:13–00:13 | Lucky | 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 Metal (Xin, 辛); 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.
Xin days: do not make sauce, or the master will never taste it. (辛不合酱主人不尝)
Goat days: do not take medicine, or poison enters the gut. (未不服药毒气入肠)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): southwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): east. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): northwest.
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