Chinese almanac for Friday 23 July 2027

6th lunar month, day 20. A Water Rabbit day (Gui Mao, 癸卯), in a Fire Goat month (Ding Wei, 丁未) and a Fire Goat year (Ding Wei, 丁未).

Day officer
Success day (Cheng, 成)
Ruling spirit
Heavenly Virtue (Tian De, 天德), a yellow-path, lucky day
Clashes
People born in Rooster years (鸡: 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005, 2017). The sha (煞) lies west.
Solar term
Major Heat (Da Shu, 大暑), at 09:04 Malaysia time

Good for

Weddings (嫁娶), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮), Consecrating a statue (开光), Visiting family and friends (会亲友), Seeing a doctor (求医), Medical treatment (治病), Roofing (盖屋), Laying foundations (起基), Raising pillars (竖柱), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Hanging a door (安门), Installing a mill (安碓磑), Building embankments (筑堤), Digging a pond (开池), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Burials (安葬), Taking off mourning clothes (除服), Putting on mourning clothes (成服)

Avoid

Moving into a new home (入宅), Opening a business (开市), Digging a well (掘井), Lawsuits (词讼), Making a coffin in advance (合寿木)

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

HourClock timeLuckClashes
Rat (子)00:19–02:19LuckyHorse (马)
Ox (丑)02:19–04:19UnluckyGoat (羊)
Tiger (寅)04:19–06:19LuckyMonkey (猴)
Rabbit (卯)06:19–08:19LuckyRooster (鸡)
Dragon (辰)08:19–10:19UnluckyDog (狗)
Snake (巳)10:19–12:19UnluckyPig (猪)
Horse (午)12:19–14:19LuckyRat (鼠)
Goat (未)14:19–16:19LuckyOx (牛)
Monkey (申)16:19–18:19UnluckyTiger (虎)
Rooster (酉)18:19–20:19LuckyRabbit (兔)
Dog (戌)20:19–22:19UnluckyDragon (龙)
Pig (亥)22:19–00:19UnluckySnake (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 Water (Gui, 癸); 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.

Gui days: do not go to law, or your case is weak and your opponent strong. (癸不词讼理弱敌强)

Rabbit days: do not dig a well, or the water will not be sweet. (卯不穿井水泉不香)

God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): southeast. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): south. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): northeast.

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