Chinese almanac for Tuesday 16 February 2027
1st lunar month, day 11. A Fire Tiger day (Bing Yin, 丙寅), in a Water Tiger month (Ren Yin, 壬寅) and a Fire Goat year (Ding Wei, 丁未).
- Day officer
- Establish day (Jian, 建)
- Ruling spirit
- Heavenly Punishment (Tian Xing, 天刑), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Monkey years (猴: 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016). The sha (煞) lies north.
Good for
Consecrating a statue (开光), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Felling trees (伐木), Raising pillars (竖柱), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Trading (交易), Signing contracts (立券), Buying livestock (纳畜), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Moving a coffin (移柩), Burials (安葬)
Avoid
Moving into a new home (入宅), Travel (出行), Moving house (移徙), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Weddings (嫁娶), Breaking ground (动土), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Building a stove (作灶)
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 88 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:28–14:28. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:28–02:28 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:28–04:28 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:28–06:28 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:28–08:28 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:28–10:28 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:28–12:28 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:28–14:28 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:28–16:28 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:28–18:28 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:28–20:28 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:28–22:28 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:28–00:28 | 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 Water Tiger month (Ren Yin, 壬寅), has Yang Water (Ren, 壬). 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)
Tiger days: do not make offerings, or the spirits will not accept them. (寅不祭祀神鬼不尝)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): southwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): southwest. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): northwest.
Choosing a date