Chinese almanac for Tuesday 27 April 2027
3rd lunar month, day 21. A Fire Rat day (Bing Zi, 丙子), in a Wood Dragon month (Jia Chen, 甲辰) and a Fire Goat year (Ding Wei, 丁未).
- Day officer
- Success day (Cheng, 成)
- Ruling spirit
- Heavenly Prison (Tian Lao, 天牢), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Horse years (马: 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014, 2026). The sha (煞) lies south.
Good for
Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Praying for children (求嗣), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Consecrating a statue (开光), Raising pillars (竖柱), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Opening the storehouse (开仓), Sending out goods (出货财), Roofing (盖屋), Laying foundations (起基), Setting pillar bases (定磉), Hanging a door (安门), Nothing (诸事不宜), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Opening a grave for reburial (启钻), Thanking the earth after building (谢土)
Avoid
Moving the altar out before works (出火), Weddings (嫁娶), Opening a business (开市)
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 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:11–06:11 | Unlucky | 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 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:11–18:11 | Lucky | 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 Yang Fire (Bing, 丙); 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.
Bing days: do not repair the stove, or disaster follows. (丙不修灶必见灾殃)
Rat days: do not consult a diviner, or you bring trouble on yourself. (子不问卜自惹祸殃)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): southwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): southwest. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): northwest.
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