Chinese almanac for Tuesday 20 April 2027
3rd lunar month, day 14. An Earth Snake day (Ji Si, 己巳), in a Wood Dragon month (Jia Chen, 甲辰) and a Fire Goat year (Ding Wei, 丁未).
- Day officer
- Remove day (Chu, 除)
- Ruling spirit
- Bright Hall (Ming Tang, 明堂), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Pig years (猪: 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007, 2019). The sha (煞) lies east.
- Solar term
- Grain Rain (Gu Yu, 谷雨), at 15:17 Malaysia time
Good for
Weddings (嫁娶), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Praying for children (求嗣), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮), Consecrating a statue (开光), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Moving house (移徙), Moving into a new home (入宅), Raising pillars (竖柱), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Visiting family and friends (会亲友), Roofing (盖屋), Laying foundations (起基), Medical treatment (治病), Hanging a door (安门), Making carts and tools (造车器), Digging a well (掘井), Digging a pond (开池)
Avoid
Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Travel (出行), Repairing a grave (修坟), Burials (安葬), Opening a business (开市), Signing contracts (立券), 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 72 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:12–14:12. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:12–02:12 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:12–04:12 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:12–06:12 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:12–08:12 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:12–10:12 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:12–12:12 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:12–14:12 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:12–16:12 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:12–18:12 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:12–20:12 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:12–22:12 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:12–00:12 | 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 Earth (Ji, 己); this month, the Wood Dragon month (Jia Chen, 甲辰), has Yang Wood (Jia, 甲). 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)
Snake days: do not travel far, or your goods go missing. (巳不远行财物伏藏)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): northeast. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): north. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): north.
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