Chinese almanac for Friday 25 June 2027
5th lunar month, day 21. A Wood Pig day (Yi Hai, 乙亥), in a Fire Horse month (Bing Wu, 丙午) and a Fire Goat year (Ding Wei, 丁未).
- Day officer
- Initiate day (Zhi, 执)
- Ruling spirit
- Vermilion Bird (Zhu Que, 朱雀), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Snake years (蛇: 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013, 2025). The sha (煞) lies west.
Good for
Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Coming-of-age rites (冠笄), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮), Travel (出行), Building and repairs (修造), Breaking ground (动土), Moving house (移徙), Moving into a new home (入宅), Setting up the home altar (安香), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Demolition (拆卸), Roofing (盖屋), Laying foundations (起基), Raising pillars (竖柱), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Setting pillar bases (定磉), Hanging a door (安门), Digging a pond (开池)
Avoid
Weddings (嫁娶), Opening a business (开市), Making a coffin in advance (合寿木), 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 76 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:16–14:16. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:16–02:16 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:16–04:16 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:16–06:16 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:16–08:16 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:16–10:16 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:16–12:16 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:16–14:16 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:16–16:16 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:16–18:16 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:16–20:16 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:16–22:16 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:16–00:16 | 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 Wood (Yi, 乙); this month, the Fire Horse month (Bing Wu, 丙午), has Yang Fire (Bing, 丙). 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.
Yi days: do not plant, or a thousand seedlings will not grow. (乙不栽植千株不长)
Pig days: do not marry, or it goes badly for the groom. (亥不嫁娶不利新郎)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): northwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): northeast. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southwest.
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