Chinese almanac for Tuesday 20 July 2027
6th lunar month, day 17. A Metal Rat day (Geng Zi, 庚子), in a Fire Goat month (Ding Wei, 丁未) and a Fire Goat year (Ding Wei, 丁未).
- Day officer
- Initiate day (Zhi, 执)
- Ruling spirit
- Heavenly Punishment (Tian Xing, 天刑), 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), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Trimming nails (整手足甲), Setting up the bed (安床), Ritual bathing (沐浴), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Moving a coffin (移柩), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Opening a grave for reburial (启钻), Burials (安葬), Thanking the earth after building (谢土)
Avoid
Weddings (嫁娶), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮), Opening a business (开市), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Moving into a new home (入宅), Moving house (移徙), Travel (出行), Building a stove (作灶), Hanging a door (安门), Felling trees (伐木)
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 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:19–10:19 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:19–12:19 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:19–14:19 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:19–16:19 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:19–18:19 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:19–20:19 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:19–22:19 | Unlucky | 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 Metal (Geng, 庚); 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.
Geng days: do not string a loom, or it stands idle. (庚不经络织机虚张)
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): northwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): east. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southwest.
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