Chinese almanac for Wednesday 5 May 2027
3rd lunar month, day 29. A Wood Monkey day (Jia Shen, 甲申), in a Wood Dragon month (Jia Chen, 甲辰) and a Fire Goat year (Ding Wei, 丁未).
- Day officer
- Stable day (Ding, 定)
- Ruling spirit
- Golden Casket (Jin Kui, 金匮), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Tiger years (虎: 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010, 2022). The sha (煞) lies south.
Good for
Making carts and tools (造车器), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Praying for children (求嗣), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮), Opening a business (开市), Trading (交易), Installing machinery (安机械), Carving (雕刻), Consecrating a statue (开光), Roofing (盖屋), Closing the roof ridge (合脊), Laying foundations (起基), Setting pillar bases (定磉), Hanging a door (安门), Buying livestock (纳畜), Burials (安葬), Preparing one’s own grave (开生坟), Setting up a tombstone (立碑), Thanking the earth after building (谢土)
Avoid
Moving into a new home (入宅), Breaking ground (动土), Opening the storehouse (开仓), Sending out goods (出货财)
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 70 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:10–14:10. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:10–02:10 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:10–04:10 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:10–06:10 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:10–08:10 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:10–10:10 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:10–12:10 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:10–14:10 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:10–16:10 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:10–18:10 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:10–20:10 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:10–22:10 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:10–00:10 | 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 Wood (Jia, 甲); 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.
Jia days: do not open the storehouse, or goods and money drain away. (甲不开仓财物耗散)
Monkey days: do not set up a bed, or spirits enter the room. (申不安床鬼祟入房)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): northeast. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): northeast. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): north.
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