Chinese almanac for Tuesday 3 August 2027
7th lunar month, day 2. A Wood Tiger day (Jia Yin, 甲寅), in a Fire Goat month (Ding Wei, 丁未) and a Fire Goat year (Ding Wei, 丁未).
- Day officer
- Danger day (Wei, 危)
- Ruling spirit
- Golden Casket (Jin Kui, 金匮), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Monkey years (猴: 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016). The sha (煞) lies north.
Good for
Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Weddings (嫁娶), Moving house (移徙), Moving into a new home (入宅), Travel (出行), Opening a business (开市), Trading (交易), Signing contracts (立券), Receiving money (纳财), Visiting family and friends (会亲友), 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), Setting up the bed (安床), Building a stove (作灶), Hanging a signboard (挂匾), Burials (安葬), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Opening a grave for reburial (启钻), Setting up a tombstone (立碑), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Moving a coffin (移柩)
Avoid
Praying for blessings (祈福), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Opening the storehouse (开仓), Digging a well (掘井), Raising livestock (牧养)
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 Wood (Jia, 甲); 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.
Jia days: do not open the storehouse, or goods and money drain away. (甲不开仓财物耗散)
Tiger days: do not make offerings, or the spirits will not accept them. (寅不祭祀神鬼不尝)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): northeast. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): northeast. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): north.
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