Chinese almanac for Friday 16 July 2027
6th lunar month, day 13. A Fire Monkey day (Bing Shen, 丙申), in a Fire Goat month (Ding Wei, 丁未) and a Fire Goat year (Ding Wei, 丁未).
- Day officer
- Remove day (Chu, 除)
- Ruling spirit
- Keeper of Fate (Si Ming, 司命), 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
Building and repairs (修造), Breaking ground (动土), Installing machinery (安机械), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Ritual bathing (沐浴), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Demolition (拆卸), Medical treatment (治病), Building a stove (作灶), Roofing (盖屋), Laying foundations (起基), Digging a pond (开池), Cleaning the house (扫舍), Building animal pens (造畜稠), Preparing one’s own grave (开生坟), Making a coffin in advance (合寿木), Burials (安葬), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Opening a grave for reburial (启钻), Moving a coffin (移柩), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Setting up a tombstone (立碑)
Avoid
Opening a business (开市), Moving into a new home (入宅), Travel (出行), Setting up the bed (安床)
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 79 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:19–14:19. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:19–02:19 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:19–04:19 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:19–06:19 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:19–08:19 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:19–10:19 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:19–12:19 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:19–14:19 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:19–16:19 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:19–18:19 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:19–20:19 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:19–22:19 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:19–00:19 | 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 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.
Bing days: do not repair the stove, or disaster follows. (丙不修灶必见灾殃)
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): southwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): southwest. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): northwest.
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