Chinese almanac for Monday 12 July 2027
6th lunar month, day 9. A Water Dragon day (Ren Chen, 壬辰), in a Fire Goat month (Ding Wei, 丁未) and a Fire Goat year (Ding Wei, 丁未).
- Day officer
- Receive day (Shou, 收)
- Ruling spirit
- White Tiger (Bai Hu, 白虎), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Dog years (狗: 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006, 2018). The sha (煞) lies south.
Good for
Offerings and worship (祭祀), Coming-of-age rites (冠笄), Building a stove (作灶), Trading (交易), Receiving money (纳财), Planting (栽种), Making nets (结网), Buying livestock (纳畜), Raising livestock (牧养), Taking in new household members (进人口)
Avoid
Digging channels (开渠), Building a boat (造船), Setting up the bed (安床), Burials (安葬), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Travel (出行), Repairing a grave (修坟), Digging a well (掘井), Opening a business (开市), Preparing one’s own grave (开生坟)
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 78 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:18–14:18. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:18–02:18 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:18–04:18 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:18–06:18 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:18–08:18 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:18–10:18 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:18–12:18 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:18–14:18 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:18–16:18 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:18–18:18 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:18–20:18 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:18–22:18 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:18–00:18 | 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 Yang Water (Ren, 壬); this month, the Fire Goat month (Ding Wei, 丁未), has Yin Fire (Ding, 丁). 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.
Ren days: do not release water, or it cannot be held back. (壬不泱水更难提防)
Dragon days: do not weep, or another death follows. (辰不哭泣必主重丧)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): south. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): south. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southeast.
Choosing a date